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Box 14

 Container

Contains 3 Results:

[C.?] Johnson letter to George M. Dallas, 1848 February

 Item — Box: 14, Folder: 6
Identifier: Vault MSS 792 Series 3 Sub-Series 2 Item 1
Scope and Contents

Letter from [C.?] Johnson, P.O. Department, to George M. Dallas, he's directed the establishment of a "special office," dated February 11, 1848. Also a letter from Dallas to Thomas L. Kane from Philadelphia, written on the back of previous letter, Kane is "the first whose wishes have not been defeated by my intervention," dated February 12, 1848.

Dates: 1848 February
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Vault MSS 792, Kane family papers / Thomas L. Kane papers on the Mormons / Thomas L. Kane correspondence regarding Winter Quarters

Thomas L. Kane letter to [Post Master?], date of production not identified

 Item — Box: 14, Folder: 6
Identifier: Vault MSS 792 Series 3 Sub-Series 2 Item 2
Scope and Contents

Letter from Kane to [Post Master?], draft, saying that the Mormons want a post office at Council Bluffs, asks that Evan M. Green be Post Master.

Dates: Majority of material found within date of production not identified
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Vault MSS 792, Kane family papers / Thomas L. Kane papers on the Mormons / Thomas L. Kane correspondence regarding Winter Quarters

Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball, Wilford Woodruff, and others petition to the Postmaster General of the United States, date of production not identified

 Item — Box: 14, Folder: 6
Identifier: Vault MSS 792 Series 3 Sub-Series 2 Item 3
Scope and Contents

Petition to the Postmaster General of the United States, copy, asking for a post office in the Council Bluffs area, to be called Tabernacle Post Office. Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball, and Wilford Woodruff among names included. Date of production not identified.

Dates: Majority of material found within date of production not identified
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Vault MSS 792, Kane family papers / Thomas L. Kane papers on the Mormons / Thomas L. Kane correspondence regarding Winter Quarters

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