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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 The first week in December I was so busied & hurried with Estimates etc. that I did not know any thing about it, as it was coming on. Up at 6 A.M. and work till 10 or 11, any how, forget how I felt, or never stopped to think. 7th Get Estimates etc. done up; rolled a Hand Car, pretty vigorous exercise by the way. "Battles of the World" might make a book similar to Headley's: if no better, it would be 'no great shakes.' I judge though that it might be. It might not however take so well."Battles of Life" might be a far higher subject. - Who is sufficient for these things?"What Might have been." I see plainly you'll never make a successful "Novel Writer". Those "Close semi-Mathematical deductions of probabilities", might be ingenious & curious etc. "And a' that"ï¿½ï¿½; but would probably fail entirely - would drop down into an awful gulf of a chasm between the truth of History, and the charm of Fiction.There is however a great field there.Package per Robbins' Express came safely & speedily to hand."Eliab has in considerable degree learned a good trade" He has not probably learned any more of it than would be extremely convenient for a Engineer to know - But little more of it perhaps than I have got to learn - not so much of some branches of it may be. The Box 10ft below surface, water replaced with equal weight of Lead. air tight - would be of same bulk as before, same weight + weight of a certain bulk of air at surface, to fill the vacancy in bulk of lead. sink a bit, would it not?Alison is in high repute as a Historian; that is with Loyal Englishmen. Lacks impartiality. Strongly prejudiced against all "Liberalism" for a "Constitutional Monarchy" etc. Thiers I have never read. is a very interesting writer indeed. is a little smiling fragment of a man 3 or 4 feet high very much thought of by Frenchmen "Lively" to last degree.

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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 3165px × 4021px 72.86 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_07_fl_193_016_004.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FK91

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