Newberry Library - Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, to Charles W. Rich (half-brother), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1844, 1846-1847

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Title Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, to Charles W. Rich (half-brother), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1844, 1846-1847

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1844, 1846-1847

Place United States

Subjects Bowdoin College, Brothers and sisters, DuQuoin Coal Company, Illinois Central Railroad Company

Format Business records, Correspondence, Diaries, Genealogies, Invoices, Manuscripts, Personal narratives, Records

User-Contributed Transcription We do not have to study so hard now as sometimes in the former part of the course, but it is more important to be here, on account of the lectures, which one cannot well get any where else, if one wishes to keep along with his class, he might about as well lose the term, as a single week of it.
So, I suppose, if I stay in College the rest of my course, I must, or had better at least, keep close to it, the little while longer I have.
My compliments, best love and deepest respect to the bride that is to be. All happiness and all blessings make for you both an Eden here, and -
"Like summer's beam,
And summer's stream
May you float on in joy to seek
A calmer sea, where storms shall cease -
A purer sky, where all is peace."
As for that taxing affair, I really cannot help thinking it rather a dirty business in the selectmen of your town of Milo. In the first place, as a general thing students are not taxed at all, even where they have a regular residence. Then it is very different with me from what it would be in case of a young man who has a father living, is supplied with his funds &c. &c. from a home. Moreover, I have been in Milo just about

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Archival Collection Title Isaac Stevens Metcalf papers, Midwest Manuscript Collection

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Call Number Midwest MS Metcalf Box 8 Folder 197

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 3018px × 3836px 66.28 MB

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Unique Identifier NL11FKGK

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