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Box 32

 Container

Contains 3 Results:

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

Elizabeth Wood Kane letter to Simon Cameron, 1873 January 1

 Item — Box: 32, Folder: 8
Identifier: Vault MSS 792 Series 6 Sub-Series 4 Sub-Series 4 Item 3
Scope and Contents note

Draft of letter from Kane to Cameron sending an extract from a letter to her sister about the Mormons [not there] dated January 1, 1873.

Dates: 1873 January 1