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

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

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 It is well those shingles of Charles are Cedar; they would rot before the reach Bangor. What does the man do for Provisions and taxes, I should like to know.
Is he, or are they, likely to do any thing towards getting some money for me this summer? It certainly ought to be done.
Suppose I can, what do you think of the expediency of my getting upon the Rail Road anywhere? of intending to make myself an Engineer? Should I be fitted for such business, or likely to succeed in it?
I know that I can do better in something else than I can in School teaching, for I dislike it too much ever to take sufficient interest in it, to reach extended success. The whole heart must be in any thing to ensure success in it. Mine, I believe could not be in teaching as a permanent profession.
As I do not intend to follow it as a profession is it not, the quicker I give it up entirely the better for me every way? If I can earn say from twenty or thirty to fifty or sixty dolls. per month besides board & expenses, to begin with, as an Engineer's assistant, had I not better go into it? that is if I can get the chance. and why can I not? and succeed in it? An active, able bodied, rugged young man, familiar with labor, and exposure, professed of mind, and of education, with a disposition to do. What hinders
Please to write again soon as convenient
Aff. I. S. Metcalfe

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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 192

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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Unique Identifier NL11FK4U

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