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Box 33

 Container

Contains 10 Results:

A journey through Utah, winter of 1872-73, volume 1, 1872-1874

 Item — Box: 33, Folder: 1
Identifier: Vault MSS 792 Series 6 Sub-Series 4 Sub-Series 4
Scope and Contents

Account of Thomas L. Kane, Elizabeth Wood Kane and two of their sons on a journey through Utah, from Salt Lake to St. George, with Brigham Young and several others. Describes homes where they stayed, polygamy, Mormon customs, dealings with the Indians, describes different people, and landscape. Dated approximately 1872-1874

Dates: Majority of material found within 1872-1874
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

A journey through Utah, winter of 1872-73, volume 2, 1872-1874

 Item — Box: 33, Folder: 2
Identifier: Vault MSS 792 Series 6 Sub-Series 4 Sub-Series 4
Scope and Contents

Continuation of account of Thomas L. Kane, Elizabeth Wood Kane and two of their sons on a journey through Utah. Dated approximately 1872-1874.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1872-1874
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

Twelve Mormon homes, 1872-1874

 Item — Box: 33, Folder: 3
Identifier: Vault MSS 792 Series 6 Sub-Series 4 Sub-Series 4
Scope and Contents

Typescript of Twelve Mormon Homes, 67 pp. grey cover, many marginal notes included written in pencil and ink. Dated approximately 1872-1874.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1872-1874
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

Twelve Mormon homes, 1872-1874

 Item — Box: 33, Folder: 4
Identifier: Vault MSS 792 Series 6 Sub-Series 4 Sub-Series 4
Scope and Contents

Typescript of Twelve Mormon Homes, 77 pp. (a different typescript copy of the same work, no cover, loose pp., marginal notes written in pencil and ink. Dated approximately 1872-1874.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1872-1874
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

Twelve Mormon homes visited in succession on a journey through Utah to Arizona, 1872-1874

 Item — Box: 33, Folder: 5
Identifier: Vault MSS 792 Series 6 Sub-Series 4 Sub-Series 4
Scope and Contents

"Twelve Mormon Homes Visited in Succession on a Journey through Utah to Arizona," first edition, corrections made on pp. 77, 106, 119, and 134, dated approximately 1874.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1872-1874
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

Thomas L. Kane letter to William Wood, 1877 July 8

 Item — Box: 33, Folder: 6
Identifier: Vault MSS 792 Series 6 Sub-Series 4 Sub-Series 4 Item 1
Scope and Contents note

Letter from Kane to Wood regarding Elizabeth Wood Kane's book, "Twelve Mormon Homes," saying Wood has the legal title of Elizabeth Wood Kane's books, the Mormons would have given her $15,000, dated July 8, 1877.

Dates: 1877 July 8
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

Walter Lippencott correspondence with Thomas L. Kane, 1874 March-1874 June

 Item — Box: 33, Folder: 6
Identifier: Vault MSS 792 Series 6 Sub-Series 4 Sub-Series 4 Item 2
Scope and Contents

Several letters, telegrams, and receipts between Kane and Lippencott regarding the printing of Elizabeth Wood Kane's book.

Dates: 1874 March-1874 June
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

The Mormon problem, after 1872

 Item — Box: 33, Folder: 6
Identifier: Vault MSS 792 Series 6 Sub-Series 4 Sub-Series 4 Item 3
Scope and Contents

Statement [by Charles Shields?] about Elizabeth Wood Kane's book Twelve Mormon Homes as the most important contribution which has yet been made to a proper understanding of the Mormon question, postmarked from Princeton, dated June 19.

Dates: Majority of material found within after 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 writings from Utah trip, 1860-1877

 Sub-Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Vault MSS 792 Series 6 Sub-Series 4 Sub-Series 4
Scope and Contents

Contains letters, notes, clippings, and other materials relating to Kane's visit to Utah in 1872. Includes information on their travels, conditions in Utah, and the publication of her account in the book Twelve Mormon Homes. Materials date from between 1860 and 1877.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1860-1877
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, 1856-1921

 Sub-Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Vault MSS 792 Series 6 Sub-Series 4
Scope and Contents

Contains autobiographical and literary writings by Elizabeth Wood Kane. Most of the documents, including travel accounts, focus on her life and experiences. She writes about her husband Thomas L. Kane serving in the Civil War, her experiences with the Mormons in the West, and Also includes family history projects, getting to meet President Ulysses S. Grant, and other family affairs. Materials also include family history writings like the autobiography of her father. Dated 1856-1921.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1856-1921
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Vault MSS 792, Kane family papers / Elizabeth Wood Kane papers

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