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

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 sympathies of all will Renew you. You will see from the [foregoing?] that I am no longer at Mariettas, but I have come to a different part of the country. I, with my friend Mr. [Bosthett?], left M at the expiration of the autumn term of school to seek a new location, a new field of labor + new friends. Pafsing down the Ohio River, through Ky., Tenn., Ala. then on into Mifs. we arrived in the latter state about the [middle?] of [Dec?] where we have been until the present + where we shall likely remain for some time to come. I am teaching and have a school that I much enjoy. Teaching here is a better businefs than in Ohio. These schools are much farther advanced than I expected to find them. I like the country + people the latter are very kind + hospitable + were it not for some [interference?], the people are as faultless as we [often?] found. You ask how I enjoyed myself during last autumn. In some respects I enjoyed myself well, but from the fact that I caused some others to be unhappy by some thoughlefsnefs of

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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