The Brigham Young Center

    Salt Lake City. U.T.
                                        16 August 1870
Gen. Thomas L. Kane.
    Kane, McKane Co. Penna.
        My Dear Friend:
            My son John W. being about to make a short trip to the Eastern States, proposes the pleasure of visiting you. I gladly embrace the opportunity of writing you a few lines to give expression to the feelings of solicitude and interest with which your name and person are cherished, not only by myself, but by all your old friends in Utah.
    As my son will hand this to you himself, I shall not encumber my note with a dry detail of the events that have transpired in our midst during the last few weeks. He can tell you so much better than can be written, whatever may be interesting to you of "the situation" in Utah, I must however say that my health is extremely good, I rejoice continually in the Providences of our God, and never felt happier, of a lighter heart, or of more joyful feelings, than in this my seventieth year on the earth. And my hope and desire for my friend to whom I am now writing is that he may continue to live, and enjoy life, until he is fully satisfied that "the truth is mighty and will prevail."
        I remain, My Dear Friend
            Yours Faithfully.
                Brigham Young