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Home and Farm Business, Illinois and Indiana, Nathan Kendall and Abby J. Reed Kendall miscellaneous correspondence, 1872-1912

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Open book Nathan Kendall and Abby J. Reed Kendall papers 1842-ca. 1940 [Box 04]

Title Home and Farm Business, Illinois and Indiana, Nathan Kendall and Abby J. Reed Kendall miscellaneous correspondence, 1872-1912

Creator Kendall, Nathan R

Date 1872-1912

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 was cracked across the bottom so after taking out the commission of five per cent will leave about #14,00 making in my hands $27,25 I was notified by the City Council that they had ordered a sidewalk built on the street across the east side of your lots and if you did not build it by the fifteenth of July they would proceed to tax the lots and sell them to pay for building it and I suppose they have a right to so so The walk to be six feet wide of two inch plank it will cost about forty three dollars for lumber beside nails You will please write me as soon as you receive this and let me know what I shall do I suppose I can build it cheaper than the city will[Written across the top at a 90 degree angle] I have not heard from Benedict since I came from Oxford he said he thought that he should get it in about ten days he would write me I will write him soon about the matter You did not say anything about the barrels of flour please write me if the flour proves good and how much it is worth then Floras knee is improving Mrs Hamlin sends loveWrite soonYours with respectC P Hamlin

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

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Call Number Midwest MS Kendall-Reed Box 4 Folder 83

BibID 991342528805867

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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