Newberry Library - Writings: School Essays, presumably by Josephine Stedman [folder 2 of 2], Nathan Kendall and Abby J. Reed Kendall miscellaneous material and writings, approximately 1850-1852

Writings: School Essays, presumably by Josephine Stedman [folder 2 of 2], Nathan Kendall and Abby J. Reed Kendall miscellaneous material and writings, approximately 1850-1852

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Title Writings: School Essays, presumably by Josephine Stedman [folder 2 of 2], Nathan Kendall and Abby J. Reed Kendall miscellaneous material and writings, approximately 1850-1852

Creator Kendall, Nathan R

Date approximately 1850-1852

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.

User-Contributed Transcription it was obtained for any price. Nay, it is of inestimable value, that only will the development of our reasoning faculties afford us pleasure but also our moral and affectionate natures if rightly brought out will be the means of affording us as much if not more enjoyment. In order to constitute an individual susceptible of the highest enjoyment he must have all his faculties equally and fully developed (a limit to which man has never reached) yet those who are deficient in many things requisite to the highest degree of happiness may be happy, that is enjoy all that they are capable of enjoying, but the higher the life the more perfect the powers of judgment, of imagination and of intensity of feeling the greater will be the capacity of enjoying. To him who has all his faculties properly cultivated there is much to live for of which an uneducated person is incapable of conceiving. It is impossible for him to draw a breath without experiencing much pleasure; that act though simple in itself might lead the mind into a train of thought which would be highly fraught with beauty and happiness. If the mind were not otherwise occupied it would naturally cause thoughts of the Deity to fill the mind from which would follow feelings of gratitude towards him who dispenses to us the blessing of breathing without which we would be as nothing. The peculiar manner in which man is formed to answer the design for which it appears he was created is a subject of great interest and thoughts regarding it would naturally occupy the mind subsequent to those mentioned, the contemplation of which would afford great pleasure, embracing as it does the sciences of physiology, physiognomy and phrenology, and if not interrupted the mind which started with the thoughts called forth by the simple act of breathing would pass over all those beautiful and highly entertaining thoughts which are the result of a thorough acquaintance with these sciences. The beauty of all the laws relating to these sciences are their peculiar adaptation to the wants of man strike the

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

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Call Number Midwest MS Kendall-Reed Box 5 Folder 107

BibID 9.91343E+14

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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