Newberry Library - 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 shown yourself ready to assist me, whether in the school-room or out, -whether together or separated by many intervening miles, -- and, lastly, it is that you and I have now spent some weeks together as room-mates, during which time I have had an opportunity of becoming more intimately acquainted with you, and have been made the recipient of many favors. What a scene would the world present without friendship? One perpetual scene of loneliness. Without one with whom we could converse familiarly and confidentially, and to whom we might communicate our joys (if indeed we could have any) and griefs, -without any in whom we could repose confidence, - what could be conceived more lonely, more unhappy, or less desirable? Without this friendship, this confidence, this love, what should we be profited by,-- what happiness should we experience in, - or how could we enjoy the society of parents, brothers, sisters, or acquaintances, (they would not be friends). When we reflect on these things, - when we are in the society of those whom we love, let is not forget to be grateful to him who has implanted in the human heart, those elevated,

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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