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Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, to Joseph M. Metcalf (brother), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1844-1850

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Title Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, to Joseph M. Metcalf (brother), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1844-1850

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1844-1850

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 Isaac.Debt from M & J. Right of governing. Marriage. Radical difference in the sexes. Metcalf arms. Heraldry. Is it a sin to have great wealth.Northfield Aug. 20th 1848Dear Brother.Your last letter was duly received, and as usual contained many things of worth & meriting reply. As for the money business upon which you wrote the case is bad. You see I owed Bowd. Coll, and did not pay; not having given bonds they had no alternative but to wait. I hated terribly to leave College without paying up. Honor requires that if I could not then I should as soon as possible. Not thinking of trouble, I wrote to Old McKeen, apologizing as handsomely as I could for running off with my bills unsettled, requesting statement of account, and promising to send it by 1st Prox. He has replied very kindly, and hoping it would be settled in time for his Annual Account, so he could report me for a degree. I do not like to put it off any longer. Still, you are in straightened circumstances, and it would probably trouble you much more to raise the money than it would all be worth. After all I guess it will not make much difference. I will write once more to Mr. McKeen, apologize the best I know, tell him perhaps, that I had invested the funds for that object where I supposed them at Command, but that the present financial crisis has taken them out of my power, & I have no means left but to wait a month or two until I can again earn the money.I suppose I should send him about a hundred dollars. Now I expected to receive more than that of Vt.&Mass. R.R. Co. before this time. to be sure I owe some sixty or more of it here; and to cap the catastrophe it seems the money does not come this month either. RailRoad Companies are awfully twisted up just now. Here is this road, apparently very prosperously situated. Every thing in a train to finish its line before the Jan., at least; the benefits of expending a hundred thousand or so on a branch hardly to be calculated; prospects otherwise so bright as could be; and now in danger of total stoppation; dropping like an apoplectic fit, merely because they cannot raise money when they have funds enough for all they require if they could only get

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Archival Collection Title Isaac Stevens Metcalf papers, Midwest Manuscript Collection

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Call Number Midwest MS Metcalf Box 7 Folder 193

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 3108px × 3961px 70.48 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_07_fl_193_010_001.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FK7G

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