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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 there has been a few Cases of what they called Cholera, and in Louisville it prevailed to considerable extents for a few days, but I believe it has abated almost ever where, at Louisville there is not more than two or three Cases per week reported, and at Cincinnatti the disease has subsided in a great measure. The people here now think vey little about Cholera, the panic about it as entirely disapeared, and they go and return from Louisville as if there was no disease there at all. We are all moving along in the same monatonous way, that we were before you left, and there has nothing new or strange transpired, since to turn the mind from its wanted Course, so all that you have to do to know how things are here, is to immagine how it was there, & you have the present before you. Miss Weed is not at Madison she left with the intention of going to Crab Orchard, but Mr. Wright had a letter from her yesterday stating that the school to which she was going had been dissolved from some Cause or other. Consequently

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

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Call Number Midwest MS Kendall-Reed Box 4 Folder 89

BibID 991342528805867

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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