Guide to the Thomas Leiper Kane Papers M0058
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Thomas Leiper Kane - biographical sketch by Mary Schofield, 7 pp. 447501 undated
Kane letter or journal. earliest date: June 23. Description of trip up Missouri River - St. Louis, For [Leavenworth], St. Joseph, Missouri, 28 pp. 447499 June and July 1846
Kane journal. St. Joseph, Mo. and up river, description. 8 pp. 447497 July 5-7, 1846
Kane notes on trip West [1846]; written several years later, date undetermined. Description of Keokuk, Iowa. 2 pp. 447495
Kane to his sister. n.d., 6 pp. Describes trip up Missouri R. toward Council Bluffs [1846] 447493
Kane - Description of Mormon History and Persecution. (Probably notes for book or lecture. History beginning 1830-1831) 447481
a. 17 pp. draft 447491
b. 4 pp. draft (similar to above) 447489
c. 1 p. notes 447487
d. 4 pp. draft 447485
e. 2 pp. notes 447483
Kane - Description of Mormons and their migrations. n.d., notes for book or lecture 447473
a. children, 5 pp. 447479
b. visions, 4 pp 447477
c. characteristics and ideology, 14 pp. 447475
Notes on Mormon History and Persecution in Missouri and Illinois. 19 pp., general notes 447471
Summary of history, chiefly 1844 to 1847. includes parts of draft of long letter re. wintering place for Mormons. 19 pp. of which 17 pp. is the letter 447469
Descriptions of attack on Mormons at [Nauvoo, Ill.] n.d., 2 pp. (Probably 1845 or 1846) 447467
Mormon settlement at Nauvoo. Memo, 2 pp. 447465
Kane's description of Nauvoo after departure of Mormons [1846]. Probably written in 1847 or later, part not by Kane 447459
a. 4 pp. draft 447463
b. 12 pp. drafts and notes 447461
Description of departure of Mormons and season of year [1846] - 1 p. flowery or poetic 447457
Resolutions at a meeting (presumably in Illinois after expulsion of Mormons) [1846]. 4 pp. 447455
Kane's description of the hardships of the Mormon march. 1846. Draft of article or lecture describing events from Feb., 1846 when first group left Nauvoo, to May, when the second group left. 9 pp. 447453
Difficulties of Mormon emigration after leaving Nauvoo. Draft, perhaps of a letter. 1 p. 447451
Mormon Journey to Salt Lake. Notes and descriptions, perhaps from a journal. 10 pp. [1847-1849] 447449
Copies of letters re. right of Mormons to pass through Indian territory 447441
a. Mitchell, R. B. to T[homas] H. Harvey. 1 p. arrival of Mormons at Council Bluffs 447447 June 29, [1846]
b. Harvey, T[homas] H. to W[illia]m Medill. 1p. 447445 July 13, 1846
c. Medill, W[illiam] to Thomas H. Harvey. 3 pp. 447443 September 2, 1846
Copies of letters re. agreement of Potawatomi Indians to let Mormons winter in their country 447427
a. Richards, Willard to [Thomas L.] Kane. 1p. 447439 August 19, 1846
b. Young, Brigham to Col. Kearney, Capt. Clary, Major Swords or C-O at Ft. Leavenworth. Description of Kane's illness, 2 pp. 447437 August 10, 1846
c. Edes, H. G. W. - medical report on Kane. 1 p. 447435 August 19, 1846
d. incomplete copies of above. 2 pp. 447433
e. Potawatomi Indians. Agreement, 1p. 447431 July 2, 1846
f. Allen, J. (Lt. Col. commanding Mormon Battalion). Approval, 1 p. 447429 July 10, 1846
Copies of letters re. wintering of Mormons in Indian territory 447419
a. [Medill, William] to J. K. Kane. Conditional permit, 1 p. 447425 September 3, 1846
b. Medill, W[illiam] to Thomas H. Harvey. 2 pp. 447423 September 2, 1846
c. Allen, J. to J. C. Little. Praising Mormon Battalion. 1 p. 447421 July 20, 1846
Unknown to [Thomas L.] Kane. Draft of unsigned letter from member of Mormon Battalion written from Chihuahua, Mexico. 3 pp. 447417 November 12, 1846
Copies of letters re. conditions and movements of Mormons 447407 1846
a. Harvey, Th[omas] H. to W[illia]m Medill. Description of Camp of Israel. 5 pp. 447415 December 3, 1846
b. Cutler, Alpheus to [Thomas H. Harvey]. 2 pp. 447413 November 3, 1846
c. Harvey, Th[omas] H. to Alpheus Cutler. 1 p. 447411 November 5, 1846
d. Cutler, Alpheus to [Thomas H. Harvey] [or Clayton?]. 5 pp. with docket notes 447409 November 6, 1846
[Kane, Thomas L.] to [? Sec. of War, Marcy, or President Polk]. n.d. (1847?). Draft, 1 p. 447405
Trials of the Mormons [1846-47] - draft of letter, n.d., description of deserted Nauvoo. 3 pp. 447403
Kane's description of his Mormon mission [1847] draft letter of letter, n.d., 7 pp. 447401
Kane, Thomas L. to William Medill, 3 pp. 447399 April 2, 1847
Kane, Thomas L. to [W. L.] Marcy, 4 pp. (see also folder #24) 447397 April 21, 1847
Medill, W[illiam] to W. L. Marcy, 8 pp. report through Marcy to the President on Mormon migration 447395 April 24, 1847
Kane, Thomas L. - Report on Mormons [1847] 8 pp. including 1 p. draft (letter to Medill or other official, docketed 'Presdts Report No. 2 contg. Census') 447393
[Kane, Thomas L.] to [James K. Polk or W. L. Marcy?] [1847], 5 pp. draft with notes 447391
Copies of letters to Medill from Kane re. Permission for Mormons to winter near Council Bluffs. n.d. (probably 1847 or 1846), 15 pp. 447389
Draft of letter by Kane to Mormon friend, after Kane's return East [1847], 1 p. (ans. to #20 ?) 447387
[Kane, Thomas L.] to [Horace] Greeley, Description of Utah shortly after original group of Mormons arrived. 9 pp. 447385 [August, 1847?]
Draft of Kane letter to high official re. Mormons [1848], 3 pp. 447383
Description of discovery of gold, 1 p. Sidney and Ira Willis and others of [Mormon] Battalion working for Sutter [1848] 447381
Letter from Kane re. Utah and Free Soil. (Kane made chairman of Free Soil Central Com. in 1848) n.d., 2 pp. 447379
Woodruff, Wilford to [Thomas L.] Kane, 1 p. defending Mormons 447377 December 4, 1849
Fragment of preliminary letter by Kane on Free Soil question. [December 4, 1849] 2 pp. 447375
Kane report on meeting on behalf of Mormons [1850] Draft of speech, 2 pp. 447373
Richards, F. D. to T[homas] L. Kane, Lecture on Mormons, 3 pp. 447371 October 30, 1851
'The Mormon Outrages at Salt Lake' - clipping from Philadelphia newspaper, including letter of September 20, from Salt Lake 447369 November 1851
New York Herald, - clipping describing Mormon settlement and life 447367 May 27, 1852
Bernhisel, John M. to [Thomas L.] Kane, 2 pp. and cover 447365 December 9, 1857
[O'Brien, Fitz James] - clipping of poem on death of Elisha Kent Kane 447363 1857
[Kane, Thomas L.] to Gov. Cummings, 1 p. 447361 [1857]
Kane letter (draft) to high official on Drummond's accusation against Mormons [1857], 2 pp. docketed on back as 447359 April 27, 1857
Diary I - Sea voyage from New York, across Isthmus of Panama and to San Francisco, pressed leaves, etc. in back 447357 January 8, 1858 to January 28, 1858
Diary II - San Francisco to San Pedro by ship, Feb. 8 or 9 left San Bernardino for Salt Lake. Includes account of departure from Fern Rock, January 4, partly out of order and illegible, contains letters, notes, maps and diagrams 447355 January 29, 1858 to May 10, 1858
"Mormon Martyrs" (of San Bernardino) - clipping from San Francisco paper of article by Wallach from Los Angeles dated April 22 or 28, 1858 447353 May 3, 1858
Kane, Thomas L. to Eli K. Price, severing relations with government. in efforts on behalf of Mormons, 2 pp. 447351 July 30, 1858
Kane letter (draft) to official, perhaps Buchanan, on behalf of Mormons. [1850?], 8 pp. (see also folders #35 and #37) 447349
Young, Brigham to Thomas L. Kane, 5 pp. and cover 447347 January 14, 1859
Forney, John W. to Thomas L. Kane, at time of threatened impeachment of Johnson. 3 pp. and cover 447345 January 23, 1867
Deseret News (Salt Lake City), clippings, Kane's death 447343 December 26 and 28, 1883
Juvenile Instructor, clipping, Kane's death (Salt Lake City paper) 447341 January 15, 1884
National Tribune (Washington, D. C.), clipping, 'Bucktail Regiment' - Kane's Civil War Regiment 447339 1886
Quasi-biblical descriptive matter in Kane's hand. 5 pp. notes 447337 undated
'Plea of a condemned man'. provenance uncertain, not related to western material, 2 pp. draft 447335 undated
Genealogy of Dennistown family. Mrs. Kane was Elizabeth Dennistoun Wood. 13 pp. and wax seal 447333 undated
Short dissertation on state sovereignty. 2 pp. notes 447331 undated
Democracy and rule of the people. 1 p. draft 447329
Part of an account of the 'Mahaw massacre', 4 pp. 447327 undated
Notes on Mormons and their history, 4 pp. 447325 undated
Fragments 447319
a. 2 pp. notes - arrival in Omaha territory, poetic 447323
b. part of letter - about meeting, 1 p. 447321 undated