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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 John Quincy Adams, in many respects, and all things considered, the greatest man in the world, at the time of his death. I suppose you have seen the splendid tributes to his memory in Congress & elsewhere. Some of the warmest too from those who had been his bitterest political enemies.Won't Edward Everett get off a great Eulogy? And Ex Gov. Seward in New York also? I have not seen as the Legislature of Maine are likely even to try to get off anything.That strange man Theodore Parker got off a great Sermon, or what some of them call a Sermon, last Sabbath, in Boston. I have seen it, but not read it much. Parker is certainly a Genius, although a strange man.Have you ever seen the new, review, "The Mass. Quarterly" Edited by Parker, Ralph Waldo Emerson {whom you do not perhaps consider the greatest writer America has ever produced, as some Europeans do} and so forth. One cannot, whatever he thinks of these men, or the tendency of their doctrines, help admiring the hearty good will, or whole souled earnestness, or mad strength, with which they tear away at the foundations of whatever they happen to think error, falsehood, or oppression.I hope to hear from you soonAfft'y I.S.M.PS.March 10th, Your letter and Ann's enclosed just received which I open this to acknowledge You have certainly an "aggravation" way of telling News. Viz. That lecture, and the bargain you mentioned. Did you ever realize such a thing as particulars? Do not let your letter be very long delayed, if you can avoid it. Affc., IS Metcalf

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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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Unique Identifier NL11FK6S

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