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Box 14

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Contains 149 Results:

Thomas L. Kane letter to [Post Master?], date of production not identified

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

Letter from Kane to [Post Master?], draft, saying that the Mormons want a post office at Council Bluffs, asks that Evan M. Green be Post Master.

Dates: Majority of material found within date of production not identified
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Vault MSS 792, Kane family papers / Thomas L. Kane papers on the Mormons / Thomas L. Kane correspondence regarding Winter Quarters

Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball, Wilford Woodruff, and others petition to the Postmaster General of the United States, date of production not identified

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

Petition to the Postmaster General of the United States, copy, asking for a post office in the Council Bluffs area, to be called Tabernacle Post Office. Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball, and Wilford Woodruff among names included. Date of production not identified.

Dates: Majority of material found within date of production not identified
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Vault MSS 792, Kane family papers / Thomas L. Kane papers on the Mormons / Thomas L. Kane correspondence regarding Winter Quarters

James Allen note to Thomas L. Kane, 1846 July 22

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

Note signed by Allen, Camp [Mormon Battalion?], authorizing Kane to buy three gallons of whiskey, dated July 22, 1846.

Dates: 1846 July 22
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Vault MSS 792, Kane family papers / Thomas L. Kane papers on the Mormons / Thomas L. Kane note and orders for Mormon Battalion

Philip St. George Cooke orders no. 1, 1846-1847

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

Order from Lt. Col. P.S. George Cooke, San Diego, read to the Battalion at Retreat parade San Luis Rey, February 4, 1847, giving congratulations on completing the march to the Pacific, recounts the hardships of the journey, includes extract from Cooke's official journal, dated December 20, 1846. Dated January 30, 1847.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1846-1847
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Vault MSS 792, Kane family papers / Thomas L. Kane papers on the Mormons / Thomas L. Kane note and orders for Mormon Battalion

Bill organizing territorial governments, 1849 December 31

 Item — Box: 14, Folder: 9
Identifier: Vault MSS 792 Series 3 Sub-Series 4 Item 1
Scope and Contents

Proposed bill organizing Territorial governments for California, Deseret, & New Mexico, and "to enable the people of Jacinto, with the consent of the State of Texas, to form a constitution and state government," dated December 31, 1849.

Dates: 1849 December 31
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Vault MSS 792, Kane family papers / Thomas L. Kane papers on the Mormons / Thomas L. Kane legislative drafts on Utah statehood

An extract of the act to establish a territorial government for Utah, 1852

 Item — Box: 14, Folder: 9
Identifier: Vault MSS 792 Series 3 Sub-Series 4 Item 2
Scope and Contents

Extract states that the governor shall have a census taken before the first election. Also includes newspaper clipping, "The Mormons in Utah," advocating the federal government leaving Utah alone to govern herself, dated 1852.

Dates: Majority of material found in 1852
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Vault MSS 792, Kane family papers / Thomas L. Kane papers on the Mormons / Thomas L. Kane legislative drafts on Utah statehood

An act for the admission of the State of Deseret into the Union, date of production not identified

 Item — Box: 14, Folder: 9
Identifier: Vault MSS 792 Series 3 Sub-Series 4 Item 3
Scope and Contents

Declaration saying that admission of the State of Deseret into the Union will not take effect unless polygamy is outlawed in the state. Date of production not identified.

Dates: Majority of material found within date of production not identified
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Vault MSS 792, Kane family papers / Thomas L. Kane papers on the Mormons / Thomas L. Kane legislative drafts on Utah statehood

L. Fitzgerald Tasistro letter to Thomas L. Kane, 1850 June 27

 Item — Box: 14, Folder: 10
Identifier: Vault MSS 792 Series 3 Sub-Series 5 Item 1
Scope and Contents

Letter from Tasistro to Kane; a thank-you note for a copy of Kane's 1850 address on the Mormons, will express any opinions on it in the "National Intelligencer," dated June 27, 1850.

Dates: 1850 June 27
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Vault MSS 792, Kane family papers / Thomas L. Kane papers on the Mormons / Thomas L. Kane address to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania

James Cooper letter to Thomas L. Kane, 1850 July 6

 Item — Box: 14, Folder: 10
Identifier: Vault MSS 792 Series 3 Sub-Series 5 Item 2
Scope and Contents

Letter from James Cooper to Kane, thank-you note for the transmission of pamphlets, dated July 6, 1850.

Dates: 1850 July 6
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Vault MSS 792, Kane family papers / Thomas L. Kane papers on the Mormons / Thomas L. Kane address to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania

Salmon P. Chase letter to Thomas L. Kane, 1850 July 15

 Item — Box: 14, Folder: 10
Identifier: Vault MSS 792 Series 3 Sub-Series 5 Item 3
Scope and Contents

Letter from Chase from Washington, to Kane, asks about the pamphlet Kane was going to send [on the Mormons], Babbitt has one, dated July 15, 1850.

Dates: 1850 July 15
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Vault MSS 792, Kane family papers / Thomas L. Kane papers on the Mormons / Thomas L. Kane address to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania

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