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Personal: to Nathan Kendall from Friends and Students, Nathan Kendall and Abby J. Reed Kendall miscellaneous correspondence, Aug.-Dec. 1851

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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, Aug.-Dec. 1851

Creator Kendall, Nathan R

Date Aug.-Dec. 1851

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 Owensboro November 29th 1851 Nov. 29My dear Friend, I have allowed your last kind letter to go so long unanswered that I am almost ashamed to pen one word to you. Still, I hope that when you hear my reasons, or Some of them, for my long Silence, you will pardon my seeming forgetfulness & prove that you have pardoned by writing to me at an early date. Your letters have been a source of great pleasure to me. I do most sincerely and cordially value your friendship. So you must not deprive me of your letters, nor, of your kind regard. I received your letter only a few days before I left Louisville. I then determined to write as soon as I should become settled n Owensboro, but since the commencement of my School I have been to Closely occupied, as to[top] are at first Extremely unpleasant but you soon become accustomed to both or too much interested in his Excellent Sermons to think of what it first was disagreeable. On Saturday we have Prayer-Meetings at the Church and he preaches or rather talks to his Church in the most familiar and delightful manner? What a great and glorious Character is that of a true Christian! But I often think that Dr. Burgess is nearly right when he says "Of all who profess to Love the Lord, there are very few who really do." Tell Miss Weed that I will write to her very soon. Love to your Sister & to write to me as soon as you can after the reception of my letter. Tell me what you all have been doing teaching ha ha this is a poor

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

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Call Number Midwest MS Kendall-Reed Box 4 Folder 92

BibID 991342528805867

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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