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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 have time next summer, he said the buyer at Fowles told him that he would store the corn one month free of charge if he did not wish to sell until spring and after that one half cent per bushel a month. I will keep watch of the market and sell for the best price I can Should you need any money soon Ladou says that I can sell to a man that has brought some land east of your farm five or six hundred bushels of Corn there at the crib for sixty cents cash down and I wish you would write me if you can by return mail if you will sell to the man the Corn as he wants it to feed Ladou has the name among his neighbors of of being honest and working with the farm well and he is so well satisfied that he wants to stay there next year and I told him he could on the same terms And I have had several application

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

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