Newberry Library - Writings: School Essays, presumably by Josephine Stedman, Nathan Kendall and Abby J. Reed Kendall miscellaneous material and writings, ca. 1850

Writings: School Essays, presumably by Josephine Stedman, Nathan Kendall and Abby J. Reed Kendall miscellaneous material and writings, ca. 1850

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Open book Nathan Kendall and Abby J. Reed Kendall papers 1842-ca. 1940 [Box 5]

Title Writings: School Essays, presumably by Josephine Stedman, Nathan Kendall and Abby J. Reed Kendall miscellaneous material and writings, ca. 1850

Creator Kendall, Nathan R

Date ca. 1850

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.

User-Contributed Transcription The blind can by feeling read in which case they substitute the fingers for the eyes. The sense of smell will also become nicer as it is brought into use. The presence of bodies which have no perceptible odor to persons in general are detected in this way by the blind. The sense of sight may also be improved by habit as may be noticed in the sailor and engineer and by cultivating this sense the deaf can tell what their friends are saying to them by the onion of their lips and the gestures they make. In this point of view the law of habit may be considered as of great benefit to the human race. But there is another view which may be taken of this law which leads to different and sometimes unpleasant results. The taste becomes more delicate by use. It will enable persons to distinguish the flavors of different dishes when there is but a very nice distinction. The taste becomes vitiated by habitual use of anything that is stimulating as may be seen in the users of tobacco, snuff or ardent spirits. Anyone who meddle with any of these will become their slaves and devote the rest of his life, whether it be one or fifty years to their service. The only way to get entirely rid of these bad habits is to pledge yourselves never again to touch those things which have caused them. J.C.S.

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

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Call Number Midwest MS Kendall-Reed Box 5 Folder 107

BibID 991342528805867

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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