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Box 14

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Contains 149 Results:

Alfred Cumming letter to Lewis Cass, 1858 May 11

 Item — Box: 14, Folder: 17
Identifier: Vault MSS 792 Series 3 Sub-Series 6 Item 7
Scope and Contents

Letter from Cumming to Cass relating his trip south to visit the Mormons traveling there.

Dates: 1858 May 11
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Vault MSS 792, Kane family papers / Thomas L. Kane papers on the Mormons / Thomas L. Kane papers on Utah Expedition

James Ferguson letter to Thomas L. Kane, 1858 May 11

 Item — Box: 14, Folder: 17
Identifier: Vault MSS 792 Series 3 Sub-Series 6 Item 8
Scope and Contents

Letter from Ferguson to Kane asking him to take a letter to an Eastern editor, dated May 11, 1858.

Dates: 1858 May 11
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Vault MSS 792, Kane family papers / Thomas L. Kane papers on the Mormons / Thomas L. Kane papers on Utah Expedition

Alfred Cumming letter James L. Orr, 1858 May 12

 Item — Box: 14, Folder: 17
Identifier: Vault MSS 792 Series 3 Sub-Series 6 Item 9
Scope and Contents

Letter relating the previous difficulties with Utah Territory, dated May 12, 1858.

Dates: 1858 May 12
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Vault MSS 792, Kane family papers / Thomas L. Kane papers on the Mormons / Thomas L. Kane papers on Utah Expedition

Alfred Cumming letter to commanding officers at Fort Laramie and Fort Kearney, 1858 May 12

 Item — Box: 14, Folder: 17
Identifier: Vault MSS 792 Series 3 Sub-Series 6 Item 10
Scope and Contents

Letter from Governor Cumming to the commanding officers at Fort Laramie and Fort Kearney asking for safe conduct for the escorts of Thomas L. Kane on their way east from Utah. Dated May 12, 1858.

Dates: 1858 May 12
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Vault MSS 792, Kane family papers / Thomas L. Kane papers on the Mormons / Thomas L. Kane papers on Utah Expedition

Alfred Cumming letter to Brigham Young, 1858 May 12

 Item — Box: 14, Folder: 17
Identifier: Vault MSS 792 Series 3 Sub-Series 6 Item 11
Scope and Contents

Letter from Governor Cumming to Young advising him on certain events relating to the Utah Expedition. Dated 1858 May 12.

Dates: 1858 May 12
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Vault MSS 792, Kane family papers / Thomas L. Kane papers on the Mormons / Thomas L. Kane papers on Utah Expedition

Brigham Young letter to Thomas L. Kane, 1858 May 12

 Item — Box: 14, Folder: 17
Identifier: Vault MSS 792 Series 3 Sub-Series 6 Item 12
Scope and Contents

Letter from Young to Kane expressing his friendship, also with several promissory notes attached.

Dates: 1858 May 12
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Vault MSS 792, Kane family papers / Thomas L. Kane papers on the Mormons / Thomas L. Kane papers on Utah Expedition

Thomas L. Kane letter to Elizabeth Wood Kane, 1858 May

 Item — Box: 14, Folder: 17
Identifier: Vault MSS 792 Series 3 Sub-Series 6 Item 13
Scope and Contents

Letter from Kane to his wife saying he is on his way home, dated May, 1858.

Dates: Majority of material found in 1858 May
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Vault MSS 792, Kane family papers / Thomas L. Kane papers on the Mormons / Thomas L. Kane papers on Utah Expedition

James Buchanan letter to Thomas L. Kane, 1858 June 21

 Item — Box: 14, Folder: 18
Identifier: Vault MSS 792 Series 3 Sub-Series 6 Item 1
Scope and Contents

Letter from President Buchanan to Kane saying he will see him Monday morning, dated June 21, 1858.

Dates: 1858 June 21
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Vault MSS 792, Kane family papers / Thomas L. Kane papers on the Mormons / Thomas L. Kane papers on Utah Expedition

Elizabeth W. Cumming letter to Thomas L. Kane, 1858 June 25

 Item — Box: 14, Folder: 18
Identifier: Vault MSS 792 Series 3 Sub-Series 6 Item 2
Scope and Contents

Letter from the wife of Governor Alfred Cumming; encloses an attack on her husband from the newspapers; details events relating to the Utah Expedition. Dated June 25, 1858.

Dates: 1858 June 25
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Vault MSS 792, Kane family papers / Thomas L. Kane papers on the Mormons / Thomas L. Kane papers on Utah Expedition

John M. Bernhisel letter to Robert P. Kane, 1858 June 29

 Item — Box: 14, Folder: 18
Identifier: Vault MSS 792 Series 3 Sub-Series 6 Item 3
Scope and Contents

Letter recounting some of the humanitarian and political favors Kane had performed on behalf of the Mormons.

Dates: 1858 June 29
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Vault MSS 792, Kane family papers / Thomas L. Kane papers on the Mormons / Thomas L. Kane papers on Utah Expedition

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