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Box 32

 Container

Contains 21 Results:

Founding of Kane and our family life there, volume II, approximately 1869-1870

 Item — Box: 32, Folder: 1
Identifier: Vault MSS 792 Series 6 Sub-Series 4 Sub-Series 2 Item 1
Scope and Contents

Materials include a typescript copy of Elizabeth Wood Kane's 1869 manuscript (Box 31, folder 2). The typescript was created by Kane's son, Elisha Kent Kane, and has some of his notes and underlining on it. Dated approximately 1869-1870.

Dates: Majority of material found within approximately 1869-1870

Elizabeth Wood Kane letter to Harriet and Elisha Kane, Alida Constable, and Ann G. Thomas, 1872 November 20-1872 November 23

 Item — Box: 32, Folder: 5
Identifier: Vault MSS 792 Series 6 Sub-Series 4 Sub-Series 4 Item 1
Scope and Contents

Letters from Elizabeth Wood Kane to Harriet Kane, Elisha Kane, Alida Constable, and Ann G. Thomas describing her trip across the country to Utah. The letters are grouped together, but there are three distinct sets of letters. The first is dated November 20, 1872; the second is dated November 22-24, 1872; and the third is dated November 25-29. Dated November 20-29, 1872.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1872 November 20-1872 November 23

Elizabeth Wood Kane letter to Elisha Kane, 1872 December 4

 Item — Box: 32, Folder: 6
Identifier: Vault MSS 792 Series 6 Sub-Series 4 Sub-Series 4 Item 1
Scope and Contents note

Letter from Elizabeth Wood Kane to her son Elisha Kent Kane, about being preached to by Mormons. She says Thomas L. Kane is much better and the boys are being called "Gentiles" by the Mormon boys. Dated December 4, 1872.

Dates: 1872 December 4

Elizabeth Wood Kane letter to Harriet Kane, 1872 December 5

 Item — Box: 32, Folder: 6
Identifier: Vault MSS 792 Series 6 Sub-Series 4 Sub-Series 4 Item 2
Scope and Contents note

Letter from Kane to Harriet describing their plans, dated December 5, 1872.

Dates: 1872 December 5

Evan Kane letter to Elisha Kane, 1872 December 7

 Item — Box: 32, Folder: 6
Identifier: Vault MSS 792 Series 6 Sub-Series 4 Sub-Series 4 Item 3
Scope and Contents note

Letter describing a visit to Brigham Young's museum; their planned trip to St. George, dated December 7, 1872.

Dates: 1872 December 7

Elizabeth Wood Kane letter to Harriet Kane, 1872 December 7

 Item — Box: 32, Folder: 6
Identifier: Vault MSS 792 Series 6 Sub-Series 4 Sub-Series 4 Item 4
Scope and Contents note

Letter giving instuctions on who to let read it, and that one one is to allude to it or any of her letters in their letters, gives account of a dinner party at William C. Staines, comments on polygamy, dated December 7, 1872.

Dates: 1872 December 7

Elizabeth Wood Kane letters to Harriet Kane, Elisha Kane, and Thomas L. Kane, 1872-1873

 Item — Box: 32, Folder: 7
Identifier: Vault MSS 792 Series 6 Sub-Series 4 Sub-Series 4 Item 1
Scope and Contents

Letters from Kane to her children written while in Utah, containing six letters total.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1872-1873

Elizabeth Wood Kane letter to Harriet Kane, 1872 December 15

 Item — Box: 32, Folder: 7
Identifier: Vault MSS 792 Series 6 Sub-Series 4 Sub-Series 4 Item 2
Scope and Contents note

Letter from Kane describing Lucy Bigelow Young as the most ladylike of all the wives of Brigham Young; traveling from Provo to Nephi, dated December 15, 1872.

Dates: 1872 December 15

Elizabeth Wood Kane letter to Simon Cameron, approximately 1872

 Item — Box: 32, Folder: 8
Identifier: Vault MSS 792 Series 6 Sub-Series 4 Sub-Series 4 Item 1
Scope and Contents

Draft of letter from Kane to Cameron describing to him the likely to happen if the Mormons are driven out of Utah, asks him to use his influence to help Utah become a state irrespective of polygamy, comments on the virtues of the Mormon people.

Dates: Majority of material found in approximately 1872

Elizabeth Wood Kane letter to Simon Cameron, 1872 December 29

 Item — Box: 32, Folder: 8
Identifier: Vault MSS 792 Series 6 Sub-Series 4 Sub-Series 4 Item 2
Scope and Contents note

Draft of letter from Kane to Cameron describing the Mormon women and their loyalty to their faith, they should let the Mormons keep polygamy and it will die of itself, but if it isn't left alone, the Mormons will cling to it and leave Utah if they have to, dated December 29, 1872.

Dates: 1872 December 29