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 Cleveland October 1 1854Reverend N. KendallDear Sir, Your last kind letters to Alonzo and myself were duly received. We have unavoidably delayed answering them much longer than we intended. For the interest manifested in our welfare and intellectual improvement we feel that we owe you our thanks. We do not fail to appreciate your kindness in offering to devote a part of your leisure time to writing us letters calculated as they are to instruct as well as to interest, yet we would not feel at liberty to accept of your proposition to continue correspondence unless we thought you would be willing to accept of short letters from us in reply to your longer ones. Although we have no regularly organized [?], have no church, and for a very long time have had no preaching, the few Universalists who are now here, have induced the Reverend A.D. Mayo to come and make an effort to establish a society. he is to commence at "Concert Hall" next Sunday, so you see we are hereafter to enjoy the privilege of attending church of our own. The most of your questions upon religion we do not at present feel quite prepared to answer, they will however furnish us subjects

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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