Thomas L. Kane autograph letter signed to Elizabeth Dennistoun Wood Kane, 1862 January 23-24

Item — Box: 22, Folder: 1

Identifier: Vault MSS 792 Series 5 Sub-Series 3

Staff Only

Dates

1862 January 23-24

Conditions Governing Use

It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain any necessary copyright clearances. Permission to publish material from Kane family papers must be obtained from the Supervisor of Reference Services and/or the L. Tom Perry Special Collections Coordinating Committee.

Extent

From the Sub-Series: 16 folders

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Other Finding Aids

File-level inventory available online. http://files.lib.byu.edu/ead/XML/VMSS792.xml

General

Autograph letter signed, from Thomas L. Kane to Elizabeth Dennistoun Wood Kane, “I deserved defeat [in the election] for my vindictiveness to Biddle,” he got all the votes from men from Cameron, McKean, and Elk counties and majority of officers, he could be a professor of history and political economy, his first recruit, “It was a great mistake, my running, so as to embitter the men as well as the officers against me,” some red marks and underlining, 1 p., folded, written on 4 sides, 23-24 January 1862.