Newberry Library - Personal: to Nathan Kendall from Friends and Students, Nathan Kendall and Abby J. Reed Kendall miscellaneous correspondence, 1855

Personal: to Nathan Kendall from Friends and Students, Nathan Kendall and Abby J. Reed Kendall miscellaneous correspondence, 1855

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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, 1855

Creator Kendall, Nathan R

Date 1855

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 Tuesday evening Jan 14th 1855Mr. Kendall This is a cold, disagreeable evening although I do not feel very well. but I will try to write a little, in answer to your kind letter of Dec. 11th I did not think when I rec'd it that more than a month would pass & it would still be unanswered. But so it has happened. I have commenced several times & have been interrupted in some way. Your letter I read with much pleasure. You need not fear writing too long letters, for they always seem short to me. I have just returned from a visit to a sister of one of my aunts who is very low with the consumption. She has been sick for seven years & had been gradually failing for this long time & yet she hopes to get well. I feel very much for her. She has never had any religious instruction. Her father was

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

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Call Number Midwest MS Kendall-Reed Box 4 Folder 98

BibID 991342528805867

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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