Newberry Library - Various, to Lucy M. Furber (sister), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1851

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Open book Various, to Lucy M. Furber (sister), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1851

Title Various, to Lucy M. Furber (sister), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1851

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1850-1851

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 Hampden Feb. 4, 1850My Dear Mrs. Furber Rec'd I tell you how rejoiced I was to heare from you! and although I have not had an opportunity to write ere this my mind has been with you almost continually since you left, - knowing the feeble state of your health we feared the result but little did we think that the mournful intelligence of your dear brothers death would reach us so soon, we heard of it a few weeks before you wrote. I could scarcely believe it; so sudden and all his friends were so confident that his life might be spared many years but our Heavenly Father "who doeth all things well" in his infinite wisdom saw fit to take him to a happier home a blessed exchange for which he was well prepared. I know it must seem almost heart-rending to part with such a brother and one so dearly loved around whom so many fond hopes were clustered whose whole sickness seemed characterized by such sweetness and forgetfulness of self. On hearing of his death my thoughts instantly reverted to that line "Sweet is the scene when Christians die" and I felt that his was the death of the righteous. O what a blessed privelege is - must have been

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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 48

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 2792px × 3693px 59.03 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_02_fl_48_003_001.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FEQC

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