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Personal: to Nathan Kendall from Friends and Students, Nathan Kendall and Abby J. Reed Kendall miscellaneous correspondence, 1854

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Open book Nathan Kendall and Abby J. Reed Kendall papers 1842-ca. 1940 [Box 04]

Title Personal: to Nathan Kendall from Friends and Students, Nathan Kendall and Abby J. Reed Kendall miscellaneous correspondence, 1854

Creator Kendall, Nathan R

Date 1854

Place California, Lake States, Northeastern States, United States, Indiana--LaPorte, Panama--Isthmus of Panama

Language English

Subjects Washington City and California Mining Association, Chronically ill, Courtship, Domestic relations, Families, Farm life, Gold miners, Husband and wife, Migration, Internal, Overland journeys to the Pacific, Teacher-student relationships

Description Correspondence, writings, documents of Nathan Kendall and wife Abby J. Reed Kendall of Massachusetts, Indiana and Illinois, including many letters to each other before and after marriage in 1857, as well as numerous letters to and from members of their families, friends and former students. Some correspondence and documents concern travel to California begun in 1849.

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User-Contributed Transcription Summerfield Unclear, Ind. 1854.Friend Kendall,Your kind epistle of April 22nd. came to hand this evening: andI am sure I cannot make you sensible of the satisfaction it gave me to receive a line from your own hand, stating that your healthwas improving. Though, upon the other hand, itunclear me to learn of unclear. Kendall's late illness [?}s. But I do pray, that she, as well as yourself,may recover yet, entirely. For O, what is lifein the absence of health. its richest blessing!Alas! My dear friend, how changed I amsince I saw you last. I have learned a great lesson though dearly bought-since we took the partinghand! I have been brought to view this life,this world. I all things transitory, in a light different from what I ever did before. For the space of about three months, during my illness last Summerand fall I was in a state of despair, so far as this life is concerned. I had given up all hopes of recoveries, in spite of the anxious endeavors of my friends to cheer up my drooping spirits, it seemed to me that I could not believe I everwould get well.

Archival Collection Title Nathan Kendall and Abby J. Reed Kendall papers

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Call Number Midwest MS Kendall-Reed Box 4 Folder 97

BibID 991342528805867

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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