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Box 32

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Contains 18 Results:

Elizabeth Wood Kane letter to Elisha Kane, 1872 December 4

 Item — Box: 32, Folder: 6
Identifier: Vault MSS 792 Series 6 Sub-Series 4 Sub-Series 4 Item 1
Scope and Contents note

Letter from Elizabeth Wood Kane to her son Elisha Kent Kane, about being preached to by Mormons. She says Thomas L. Kane is much better and the boys are being called "Gentiles" by the Mormon boys. Dated December 4, 1872.

Dates: 1872 December 4
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Vault MSS 792, Kane family papers / Elizabeth Wood Kane papers / Elizabeth Wood Kane writings / Elizabeth Wood Kane writings from Utah trip

Elizabeth Wood Kane letter to Harriet Kane, 1872 December 5

 Item — Box: 32, Folder: 6
Identifier: Vault MSS 792 Series 6 Sub-Series 4 Sub-Series 4 Item 2
Scope and Contents note

Letter from Kane to Harriet describing their plans, dated December 5, 1872.

Dates: 1872 December 5
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Vault MSS 792, Kane family papers / Elizabeth Wood Kane papers / Elizabeth Wood Kane writings / Elizabeth Wood Kane writings from Utah trip

Evan Kane letter to Elisha Kane, 1872 December 7

 Item — Box: 32, Folder: 6
Identifier: Vault MSS 792 Series 6 Sub-Series 4 Sub-Series 4 Item 3
Scope and Contents note

Letter describing a visit to Brigham Young's museum; their planned trip to St. George, dated December 7, 1872.

Dates: 1872 December 7
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Vault MSS 792, Kane family papers / Elizabeth Wood Kane papers / Elizabeth Wood Kane writings / Elizabeth Wood Kane writings from Utah trip

Elizabeth Wood Kane letter to Harriet Kane, 1872 December 7

 Item — Box: 32, Folder: 6
Identifier: Vault MSS 792 Series 6 Sub-Series 4 Sub-Series 4 Item 4
Scope and Contents note

Letter giving instuctions on who to let read it, and that one one is to allude to it or any of her letters in their letters, gives account of a dinner party at William C. Staines, comments on polygamy, dated December 7, 1872.

Dates: 1872 December 7
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Vault MSS 792, Kane family papers / Elizabeth Wood Kane papers / Elizabeth Wood Kane writings / Elizabeth Wood Kane writings from Utah trip

Elizabeth Wood Kane letters to Harriet Kane, Elisha Kane, and Thomas L. Kane, 1872-1873

 Item — Box: 32, Folder: 7
Identifier: Vault MSS 792 Series 6 Sub-Series 4 Sub-Series 4 Item 1
Scope and Contents

Letters from Kane to her children written while in Utah, containing six letters total.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1872-1873
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Vault MSS 792, Kane family papers / Elizabeth Wood Kane papers / Elizabeth Wood Kane writings / Elizabeth Wood Kane writings from Utah trip

Elizabeth Wood Kane letter to Harriet Kane, 1872 December 15

 Item — Box: 32, Folder: 7
Identifier: Vault MSS 792 Series 6 Sub-Series 4 Sub-Series 4 Item 2
Scope and Contents note

Letter from Kane describing Lucy Bigelow Young as the most ladylike of all the wives of Brigham Young; traveling from Provo to Nephi, dated December 15, 1872.

Dates: 1872 December 15
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Vault MSS 792, Kane family papers / Elizabeth Wood Kane papers / Elizabeth Wood Kane writings / Elizabeth Wood Kane writings from Utah trip

Elizabeth Wood Kane letter to Simon Cameron, approximately 1872

 Item — Box: 32, Folder: 8
Identifier: Vault MSS 792 Series 6 Sub-Series 4 Sub-Series 4 Item 1
Scope and Contents

Draft of letter from Kane to Cameron describing to him the likely to happen if the Mormons are driven out of Utah, asks him to use his influence to help Utah become a state irrespective of polygamy, comments on the virtues of the Mormon people.

Dates: Majority of material found in approximately 1872
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Vault MSS 792, Kane family papers / Elizabeth Wood Kane papers / Elizabeth Wood Kane writings / Elizabeth Wood Kane writings from Utah trip

Elizabeth Wood Kane letter to Simon Cameron, 1872 December 29

 Item — Box: 32, Folder: 8
Identifier: Vault MSS 792 Series 6 Sub-Series 4 Sub-Series 4 Item 2
Scope and Contents note

Draft of letter from Kane to Cameron describing the Mormon women and their loyalty to their faith, they should let the Mormons keep polygamy and it will die of itself, but if it isn't left alone, the Mormons will cling to it and leave Utah if they have to, dated December 29, 1872.

Dates: 1872 December 29
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Vault MSS 792, Kane family papers / Elizabeth Wood Kane papers / Elizabeth Wood Kane writings / Elizabeth Wood Kane writings from Utah trip

Elizabeth Wood Kane letter to Simon Cameron, 1873 January 1

 Item — Box: 32, Folder: 8
Identifier: Vault MSS 792 Series 6 Sub-Series 4 Sub-Series 4 Item 3
Scope and Contents note

Draft of letter from Kane to Cameron sending an extract from a letter to her sister about the Mormons [not there] dated January 1, 1873.

Dates: 1873 January 1
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Vault MSS 792, Kane family papers / Elizabeth Wood Kane papers / Elizabeth Wood Kane writings / Elizabeth Wood Kane writings from Utah trip

St. George accounts, 1872-1873

 Item — Box: 32, Folder: 9
Identifier: Vault MSS 792 Series 6 Sub-Series 4 Sub-Series 4
Scope and Contents

Dated journal entry type accounts with revisions; some are paginated with pages missing; appear to be drafts or the original entries of her St. George diary. Mostly on the Indians, Jacob Hamblin's comments on different tribes, quote from Brigham Young,

Dates: Majority of material found within 1872-1873
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Vault MSS 792, Kane family papers / Elizabeth Wood Kane papers / Elizabeth Wood Kane writings / Elizabeth Wood Kane writings from Utah trip

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