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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 Rice Wayland, Nov. 1851Dear friend Kendall Your favor of Oct 9 came duly to hand but I cannot exactly say "and I hasten" still I am now trying to write in answer to it --not as the Irishman, with a "sword in one hand and pistol in the other" but a pen in the right and in the left as many pains, aches, blues and dumps as commonly fall to the lot of a mortal of no more note than myself. But in the first place how is your health at present? You wrote that it was no better than when you was in Kentucky. I was sorry to hear it. How does the cold weather affect you? Do you feel better or worse on account of it? It completely freezes me up. I wish I was in the Bermudas or the West Indies, and if I had the means or any way provided, I'd go. My health at the time of my writing last, was improving and I was quite Sanguine in regard to it; but latterly it has been quite poor. I engaged a school for the winter but have been obliged to abandon the idea of teaching at present. The doctors think my disease to be upon the liver, and I am now taking medicine for it. Hope to be better sometime. How glad I should be to see you and talk with you face to face. You

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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