Newberry Library - Business: to Nathan Kendall. Misc., Nathan Kendall and Abby J. Reed Kendall miscellaneous correspondence, 1852-1871

Business: to Nathan Kendall. Misc., Nathan Kendall and Abby J. Reed Kendall miscellaneous correspondence, 1852-1871

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Open book Nathan Kendall and Abby J. Reed Kendall papers 1842-ca. 1940 [Box 04]

Title Business: to Nathan Kendall. Misc., Nathan Kendall and Abby J. Reed Kendall miscellaneous correspondence, 1852-1871

Creator Kendall, Nathan R

Date 1852-1871

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 of two thousand people, mostly Eastern. It is growing & may be quite a place. This country is settling up but can never be thickly populated because it is by nature a stock & not on agricultural section. They sometimes have frost here even in August. There is no rain through the summer & no snow to speak of in the winter. The ground is never covered more than two or three days. The temperature is quite even never so cold nor so hot as in Illinois or Mass. My wife is East. She may come out in the fall when I get the log cabin built. Where have you decided

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

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Call Number Midwest MS Kendall-Reed Box 4 Folder 79

BibID 991342528805867

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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