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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 [1845]Langeton Sept, 6th 1843 Many thanks are due to our much esteemed friend and schoolmate Nathan, for his kind favor which we recieved but a short time after date, and to which, we should have returned an earlier answer, had it not been for the multiplicity of avocations in which we have been engaged, since the reception of yours; they have precluded the pleasure. The pleasure did we say? Yes, for never shall it be ought but pleasure to answer, and to recieve communications from our "old school mates". It seems to us that friendship formed in our happy school days to be of a different nature than that formed else where, more enduring, and pertaining more to a brotherly and sisterly affection. Oft times does memory recall to mind those happy scenes which transpired whilst at Mt Caesar, and wish we could enjoy them again, but that pleasure must be denied us, for they are passed away, never to return. But hark! we think we hear you exclaim. I wish they would begin another subject; and so we will. How do you do, and how prosper? and have you a very large [illegible] in ["Putch"?], should like to know whether you are under the necessity of putting on "the straps and high heeled boots" at every recitation, or whether those are merely for great occasions, such as on examination, or something of the like We regret to say, that circumstances are such. that we shall [written along the left-hand side of the page]Please excuse bad writing, erasidate all mistakes and just put systematics in their places. [MLP?]

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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