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Personal: to Nathan Kendall from Friends and Students, Nathan Kendall and Abby J. Reed Kendall miscellaneous correspondence, 1843-1849

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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, 1843-1849

Creator Kendall, Nathan R

Date 1843-1849

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 go down the stream of "Insignificance" and be buried in the gulf of Oblivion; but if I do, I promise you it shall not be in consequence of "Indolence." Yet, let is always bear in mind that "Science may raise one to eminence; but Virtue alone can ensure us felicity." May we, I say bear this in mind & let virtue be our constant companion. Please - accept my thanks for the solution of that problem. The moment I cast my eye on it, I saw at a glance the rock on which I hung, and when I saw your first supposition, I took my slate and worked it through, before tracing yours through. In my former trials I had x equal one term, then when I added them together there were two unknown quantities in the equation. I then tried to work it by substituting the value of X, for X. but on multiplying together it produced an equation, which in my present stage of Algebraic knowledge I could not reduce, (if it can be reduced), at all. It never occurred to me (yo will wonder at my dullness) that X could be anything else. Since I wrote you before, my health would not admit of my performing any more labor, either bodily or mental, than my school required, of course I have not done much with Algebra. I closed my school last Saturday, having kept 11 weeks. This week thus far I have had bit little time to study, and have only gone through Geometrical Progression.

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

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Call Number Midwest MS Kendall-Reed Box 4 Folder 88

BibID 991342528805867

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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