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Business: to Nathan Kendall from Newell Gleason, Nathan Kendall and Abby J. Reed Kendall miscellaneous correspondence, 1850-1855

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

Title Business: to Nathan Kendall from Newell Gleason, Nathan Kendall and Abby J. Reed Kendall miscellaneous correspondence, 1850-1855

Creator Kendall, Nathan R

Date 1850-1855

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 Selfishness seems to be the ruling passion of the people. - It appears that they desire to live by eating up each other. There is with the exception of a few families, no good society here. Ignorance and inconsistency are peculiar associates with many. Reason and sober reflection are too little know in this community. They have lately been holding a protracted Meeting here have secured quite a number of converts - if thy have not made them two fold more the children of the Devil than before, it will be a matter of rejoicing. I went to the meetings several evening and become completely disgusted--they acted ridiculously and silly in the extreme. We are having a very fair school this fall--We number eighty scholars. Many of them are small. There are several very good scholars in the Mathematical Department. Our most worthy Yankee associate, Miss Lufkin, is not here this session -- She is at Maysville --teaching the ornamental branches in the Maysville Seminary. She has an excellent situation. I cannot of course enjoy life as I did last session being deprived of such excellent company. We were both strangers here, and Yankees, and must necessarily feel a sectional sympathy. We were a society to ourselves - and sustained the relation of brother & sister with genuine freedom and perfect confidence. Now to be left alone, you may imagine, is rather unpleasant in this unsocial place.

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

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Call Number Midwest MS Kendall-Reed Box 4 Folder 81

BibID 991342528805867

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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