Newberry Library - Various, to Lucy M. Furber (sister), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1839-1843

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Open book Various, to Lucy M. Furber (sister), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1839-1843

Title Various, to Lucy M. Furber (sister), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1839-1843

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1839-1843

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 Bangor October 12th 1840Respected Friend I trust you will not judge me to have been insincere when I intimated that it would give me much pleasure to hold a correspondence with you because I have neglected so long to write. My reason for this delay is that since I last saw you I have been altogether unsettled going from place to place, untill within a few days. You see by my date that I am not, as I expected to be, in Massachusetts. Before I left for Mass. measures were adopted to continue the Classical school another year and I concluded on the whole that it might be as well or better for me to return here then remain there. I expect now to remain here untill next Autumn when life and health permitting I shall probably go to Yale. I found on my return to B. two members of my Sab. school Class remaining Miss Spooner and Miss Webster. It is now increased by three young ladies about your age, and I would they were altogether of your mind in respect to loving & serving God. But alas it is far otherwise, They are each without a hope in the Saviour's atoning blood, and only one manifests in any considerable degree, that interest in her lessons I could wish, and neither for the salvation of their souls. Do pray for us, for me, that I may be divinely assisted and faithful in presenting to them the claims of God for the affections of their hearts to be placed on him & not on the things of Earth. And a Saviour's dying love as exhibited in the garden & on the Cross,

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Archival Collection Title Isaac Stevens Metcalf papers, Midwest Manuscript Collection

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Call Number Midwest MS Metcalf Box 2 Folder 47

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 2914px × 3633px 60.61 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_02_fl_47_007_001.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FEP4

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