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Personal: to Nathan Kendall from Friends and Students, Nathan Kendall and Abby J. Reed Kendall miscellaneous correspondence, Jan.-Jul. 1851

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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, Jan.-Jul. 1851

Creator Kendall, Nathan R

Date Jan.-Jul. 1851

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 But now a few words in relation to the telescope. You say that you cannot see Saturn or any star through it. Now the fault is this; Viz. You do not point it to it. You would find that if you could once get the start upon the field of view it would appear much brighter than it does to the naked eye. I will give you some directions in relation to it, and if you have not yet succeeded in finding objects you may profit by them. Take the Telescope in the daytime --Mount it upon the stones and look at a distant object-a tree for instance, or what is better to a dry branch move the instrument till the end of the branch appears upon the centre of the 'field.' Then notice in what part of the 'finder' you observe it. Put the instrument in the case handling it carefully So as to disadjust nothing and in the evening or "Night" point the instrument to Saturn and work it will the planet appears in precisely in the same spot in the finder that the point of the branch did. Look in the larger part and you will see it or it will be so near it that you will see the field look bright and by moving it a very little you will find it. After you have found it find the focal distance - or move the small mirror by means of the screw toll it, the planet, is well defined[left-hand side] I have made a small electric machine during this vacation.[top upside down] In regard to that money I am glad to say that we shall be able to pay it by the 20th of Feb. On the 18th of this Month we shall get $100 and on the 18th of Feb. $50 more. We are determine to make [from previous page]square with the world then.

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

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Call Number Midwest MS Kendall-Reed Box 4 Folder 91

BibID 991342528805867

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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