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Marion Metcalf diary, 1892-1901

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Open book Marion Metcalf diary, October 1892

Title Marion Metcalf diary, 1892-1901

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1892-1901

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 Gravatt's successor - "Give me thine heart"

Monday. Dec. 4 Clouds & some cold rain. Library in A.M. after a visit to Miss Scoville in her schoolroom. Worked at Algebra and Bible - Sent for things fr. U.S.C.E., W.A. Wilde & Co. & D.C. Cook - Read for "Stories of the Old World-" Looked over truck for Christmas in trunk and made lists. Bible and Algebra in evening - good time - Saw Reid and Henderson after Night School, about being tardy at Sunday School. Cap't Moton gave them each three marks. Justice or Mercy?

Tuesday. 5. Rain mostly all day - Classes as usual - Lounge some - Middlers copied quotations from Hiawatha, and began to write essays on same.

Wed. 6 Middlers in #26 to copy compositions, 7 & 8. Algebra 8-9 - Letter from home. barrel just being packed, they say. 2 hr. hickory nuts - old clothes +c.

Thurs. 7 Wrote letter home. made Bible reading for Girls' Prayermeeting & led same. not a very great success I fear. Middlers in #26 to write 8:15 to 9 finished compositions.
Lyle Allen, Jennings, Green copies the Whittier quotations for the class.

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Archival Collection Title Isaac Stevens Metcalf papers, Midwest Manuscript Collection

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Call Number Midwest MS Metcalf Box 12 Folder 277

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 2579px × 4922px 72.67 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_12_fl_277_001_116.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FQE3

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