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 of which we have many contradictory accounts. All historians however agree in representing them as extremely ignorant and savage, not avaricious and even destitute of a knowledge of the use of gold and silver but ever anxious for virtue. As was a Scythian king who taught his sons the following beautiful lesson. The king on his death bed called all of his sons to him and gave to each one after another a bunch of arrows desiring them to break them. "Then he untyed the arrows and giving them one by one they were easily broken. Let this emblem said the father be a lesson to you teaching you the great advantage which results from unity & concord". As the Scythians became intermingled with more learned and avaricious nations they seemed to lose their peculiar characteristics of innocence simplicity and frugality and were transformed into very different individuals. It was before this change that Darius warred with them. There seems to have been no real cause for this war but was engaged in on the part of Darius to gratify ambitious desires. He did not as his brothers advised him consider whether it was just and for the good of his subjects but hastily assembled a large army with which he thought to conquer them easily and marched forward but he soon wearied of the long marches which he was obliged to take through countries which the Scythians had rendered destitute of water by filling up the wells and springs which were not very abundant at any time. Darius desiring to put an end to the tiresome journeys through this land sent to the king of the Scythians to know why he did not give him battle or acknowledge him master by sending him water and earth. Indathyrsus answered "If I fly before the prince of the Persians it is not because I fear thee, what I do now is no more than what I am used to doing in time of peace. We Scythians have neither cities or lands to defend if thou has a mind to force us to an

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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File Created 08/12/2017

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