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 family which is not large very pleasan[t]. Everything is made as homelike as possible - cut off by Miss N & her two sisters. Miss N. examined my lungs yesterday and thinks there is no active disease now but that the upper part of the left one is nearly useless. There will of course be a tendency to disease though she says she sees no reason why with care I may not have comfortable health for years. I cannot hope to be as strong as before and the thought of being weak and unable to do is trying but if my heavenly Father sees best thus to discipline me I trust shall be cheerfully submissive to his will and have strength for whatever work there is for me to do. The time has never seemed to come when I could feel free from care. The school was given up last year in June but we were obliged to arrange for housekeeping immediately. Sister rented our part of the house to our niece Mary who married a Mr Gardiner and boarded with them for the use of the furniture. Thus Mother and I were left by ourselves so we decided to take some rooms upstairs & keep house. It was not just the way I would have chosen

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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 2411px × 3867px 53.38 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_04_fl_118_020_002.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FG5Y

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