Elizabeth Wood Kane letter to Thomas L. Kane, 1852 May
Scope and Contents
Letter from Elizabeth D. Wood to Thomas L. Kane, a reply to a May 8th letter from Thomas, Elizabeth "refuses his refusal" to accept her vow to marry him, asks if she will have to go to church alone when they are married, her education “if you will take a Child-Wife, you will have to educate her for a Woman-Wife,” “as to Women’s Rights, if my husband treats me as his equal and his friend, I cannot see what more I could desire,” she is glad that he chose her “instead of Mary Humphreys,” her father’s reaction to Thomas L. Kanes letter. Dated May 15-16, 1852.
Dates
- 1852 May
Conditions Governing Use
It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain any necessary copyright clearances. Permission to publish material from Kane family papers must be obtained from the Supervisor of Reference Services and/or the L. Tom Perry Special Collections Coordinating Committee.
Extent
3 folded sheet (12 pages) ; 22 x 36 cm folded to 22 x 18 cm
1 sheet (2 pages) ; 22 x 18 cm
Language of Materials
English
Other Finding Aids
File-level inventory available online. http://files.lib.byu.edu/ead/XML/VMSS792.xml
General
Holograph, signed.
Repository Details
Part of the L. Tom Perry Special Collections Repository
1130 HBLL
Brigham Young University
Provo Utah 84602 United States