Box 32
Contains 21 Results:
Founding of Kane and our family life there, volume II, approximately 1869-1870
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.
Elizabeth Wood Kane letter to Harriet and Elisha Kane, Alida Constable, and Ann G. Thomas, 1872 November 20-1872 November 23
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.
Elizabeth Wood Kane letter to Elisha Kane, 1872 December 4
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.
Elizabeth Wood Kane letter to Harriet Kane, 1872 December 5
Letter from Kane to Harriet describing their plans, dated December 5, 1872.
Evan Kane letter to Elisha Kane, 1872 December 7
Letter describing a visit to Brigham Young's museum; their planned trip to St. George, dated December 7, 1872.
Elizabeth Wood Kane letter to Harriet Kane, 1872 December 7
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.
Elizabeth Wood Kane letters to Harriet Kane, Elisha Kane, and Thomas L. Kane, 1872-1873
Letters from Kane to her children written while in Utah, containing six letters total.
Elizabeth Wood Kane letter to Harriet Kane, 1872 December 15
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.
Elizabeth Wood Kane letter to Simon Cameron, approximately 1872
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.
Elizabeth Wood Kane letter to Simon Cameron, 1872 December 29
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.