Newberry Library - Various, to Antoinette Brigham Putnam Metcalf (wife), 1847-1866, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers

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Open book Various, to Antoinette Brigham Putnam Metcalf (wife) Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1847-1866

Title Various, to Antoinette Brigham Putnam Metcalf (wife), 1847-1866, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

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 did you trust him in His hands? You would not wish the disposal to be left to you.And then the blessed hope of soon rejoining him in another home. How you should praise God for that. And is my dear A learning "useful lessons"? May she become wise under this teaching of her great Master above. After a near acquaintance with death especially if it be in youth. I think life never looks again precisely as it did before. Its flowers seem more fading, it's sunshine more uncertain. Well, it is good to "feel" that in the world we must have tribulations but we will also remember to "be of good cheer," as our Savior has commanded us. Our highest joys are often connected with our severest trials. May you and your dear parents find it so, to whom please tender my regard and sympathy. Yes, dear A. I am again at Gilmanton and thinking you might not have seen the old Academy in print. I have taken this little sheet from which to send you my thoughts. We have a larger school, but I[Left-hand side] Let me hear from you again soon.

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Archival Collection Title Isaac Stevens Metcalf papers, Midwest Manuscript Collection

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Call Number Midwest MS Metcalf Box 4 Folder 118

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 2967px × 3764px 63.94 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_04_fl_118_001_002.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FG4B

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