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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 This, you know encourages both teacher & scholars. and has an influence on the school which is not realized & appreciated by but few. But, as I said before, I feel that I am not at home,- that I am not in that school. The next day after I closed there, application was made to me to teach a school here, and in less than 2 hours I was on my way to W. The man who came after me said that he had hired a young man to teach the school, who, being young, got homesick and left. On learning the facts of the case, I found that there had been a combination against him, on learning which, he thought best for his interests to be "off". I have got along one week without experiencing any serious difficulty and I hope by prudent management to go through with it but do not know. The school is not large, but the boys think they are. I have been studying their dispositions the past week, and I believe I know pretty near what each one wants. I saw L.F. W. Pierce a few evenings since, he is teaching about 3/4 of a mile from me. I.L.A.M. and Chas. Poodrich are in the same town, and our mutual friend Norman in the dist. next adjoining this in Chesterfield.

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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