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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 be working towards Troy N.Y. or Bellow's Fall is by me not certainly now known; I think likely though towards N.Y. over the mountains.Brattleboro' is quite a place, more than I expected -- flourishing -- destined to be more so. These Rail Roads are great things -- strange our Down East people do not get their eyes open to them a little more than they have.Do write to me how everything gets along. You cannot imagine how anxious I am getting to be to hear from some of you.Whether I shall have time & opportunity to write I know not. Old Edwards asked me Sat. if I thought I could stand it to "Camp Out"? What would you have told him? Ha!I tried to get me a coat in Northfield the other day. Could not get up one that would answer my purpose

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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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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 3084px × 3975px 70.18 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_07_fl_192_009_002.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FK5E

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