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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 Meger Spencer County Ky. July 22nd 1849 Mr. Kendall. Dear sir, according to my premise I now embrace the opportunity of addressing to you this letter, in which I am glad that I can say to you that I am well, and in great hopes that when I receive a letter from you I may heare that you reached home after a pleasant trip and found your friends and relatives well and that your health is improving and that you will shortly return to Old Ky, so that we may have the pleasure of enjoying your company a while yet. Since you left here my health has not been very good, You will remember that about the time school closed or a little before I took a bad cold which settled on my lungs. this I suppose caused me to have a spell of the Childs and fevers these kept me in bad health& for three or four weeks since that time my health has been improving and I can now say that I am be well. The Cholrea has not been very bad around here any how it has not got hold of me yet. While I was sick I received word from a Nighborhood in the upper & edge of Spenser Co that the people wanted me to teach a school I visited the people and they made up a very good school it is in a very good place for the business and I think I am likely to do well. My school was quite small at first it now numbers 18 or 20 and likely to be about 30 before long. The only dread that remains to me is the responsibility of my station and that I am not better prepared for discharging the duties

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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