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Rich, Charles W. (half-brother), to Albina K. Rich (Charles's wife) and family members, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1853-1854

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Open book Rich, Charles W. (half-brother), to Albina K. Rich (Charles's wife) and family members, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1853-1854

Title Rich, Charles W. (half-brother), to Albina K. Rich (Charles's wife) and family members, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1853-1854

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1853-1854

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 more in hireing help etc, etc etc than I earn here We have just got our shed raised except for the roof, a building 84 feet long & 30 wide posts 20 feet long & set into the ground 4 feet to prevent it from blowing over as it is not to be boarded up at the sides The trees are all leaved out the cherries are as large as small peas the Peaches are about as large as the little end of a fine ladies little finger the grass on the Prairie is 4 or 5 inches high though in some places it is fed down some by the cattle & horses, mules sheep & hogs of which there are hundreds of each kind The expense of keeping a colt through the winter here is not so much as a sheep in Milo every body turns their stock all except what they work, right out on to the Prairie no expense or trouble about pasturing any amount only when they any of it they get on to a horse and ride after it & race them till they drive them up. Saturday afternoons in pleasant weather the Prairie is most full of Ladies & gents generally on horseback sometimes in a two horse buggie or a two horse lumber wagon & some on foot they take that time more than any other to visit & ride about & go to the store etc & then the new buildings in process of erection at the Station attracts the natives some Some of the Ladies are very good horsemen as well as the men in fact on horseback is the most general way of getting about for both sexes & practice makes good riders
There is a new LocoMotive Engine brought up the big Muddy to run on this Div. so that there will be two engines running here I suppose they expect to carry the iron for the third Div over this Div from Muddy

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Archival Collection Title Isaac Stevens Metcalf papers, Midwest Manuscript Collection

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Call Number Midwest MS Metcalf Box 14 Folder 311

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 3192px × 4126px 75.40 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_14_fl_311_024_003.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FT61

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