Letter from Thomas L. Kane to Elizabeth D. Wood, reply to her letter of 23-24 May, he’s not a good person to tell her what to read, “I do not know a more ill read person than myself,” he has been reading Lord Cockburn’s "Manly Life of Lord Jeffrey," before she reads theological books “first counsel with me, as one who has gone through the Inquisition,” mentions having a “lamentable experience” with theologians and metaphysicians as “they are the same evil brood . . . under another name,” talks of women being superior to men in feeling, but things that “are virtue in Woman . . . are equally virtue in Man.” Dated May 31, 1852.