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Elizabeth Wood Kane letter to Thomas L. Kane, 1852 May

 Item — Box: 11, Folder: 1
Identifier: Vault MSS 792 Series 2 Sub-Series 4 Item 31
Image of Elizabeth Wood Kane letter to Thomas L. Kane
Image of Elizabeth Wood Kane letter to Thomas L. Kane

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

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