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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 I have been in crowded halls where the dance are the Long have been entered into with all the eagerness of the votaries of pleasure, I have caught myself communing with some congenial spirit in a quiet nook out of the way of the noise and confusion of the revel, and perhaps be awakened from my musing by some kind being come to enquire if I was not enjoying myself, the expression of some Author (I forget who), often occurs to my mind "that I'm never less alone than when alone." the prospect now is that I shall spend the winter here at Br. Eaton's he expected to be absent from home the most of the time on his mission of "doing good" and wishes to have some one with his family that will take a greater interest in them than hired help, so as I am the favorite of him and his good wife I was the chosen one. I hear often from Marietta my correspondents there are my brother Elisha and mother and br Weaver and sisters. I get such good and instructive letters from br W. that I ought to be a very good girl but fear sometimes that I am remiss in my dutys. I had a letter from brother Elisha yesterday stating that Miss Woodbury had arrived, he spoke very highly of her. I hope she will be appreciated in the important place she occupies. O how much I wish I could go to school for a year or two, the longer I think about it the harder it is for me to be deprived of the necessity. I think now that I shall make one great effort in the Spring to go at least a year. If I could go but one year steadily I should have no fears for the future. I am now beginning to look more on the bright side of the world than has been my habit and I find it has been a benefit to me and that induces me to go on in the same course. A kind word from a friend does more to dispell the sadness from my mind than ought else that can be thought of. I have the need of constant companionship with some one of elevated

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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