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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 to it during the day. I will try however and go over some evening when I am disengaged and procure the books for you. I congratulate you on the "delectable,, feast you must have had in reading David Copperfield. Since reading that I have read Scotts Heart of the Mid Lothian and Goldsmiths Vicar of Wakefield which the Critics place at the head of ficticous writing -and I must say that I decidedly prefer David Copperfield to Either of these. It is now nearly a year since I have read the latter and yet almost every day I find the scenes and Characters which the artist has so vividly portrayed rising up in my mind with all the distinctness of real life. For a combination of all that is pure beautiful and lovely --for the very beau ideal of female loveliness, I think Agnes surpasses anything I have Ever met with in fiction. What a blessing it would be for us all if there were many such as Agnes to animate and Encourage with their warm and generous Sympathies. Yet where shall we find Such? Echo answers where? My reading still continues to consist mainly of the works of the immortal poets. No inconsiderable part of my leisure time is now employed in attending some of Excellent courses of lectures that are being delivered. I regret very much that I have not

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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