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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 Corn Uceelee? AdvanceSo I stayed there for four days + built two lengts of sixteen feet one on each side of the old crib at a cost of fifty dollars it took one hundred bushels of Corn to build it at 50 cts per bushel Ladou was here yesterday he says that the Corn was all gathered in good shape and that he thinks you will have about two thousand bushels sixty cents per bushel at Fowles Station so you will see that it has paid you already to build a Crib and likewise it will be wanted for years in the future I think that Corn will be some higher next summer but Ladou's contract finds him to deliver the corn to the Natives? in the month of January he says that he shall l not be particular but would like to deliver it during the winter while the roads are good as he shall

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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