Day in the Life

Aug 19, 1840

Journal Entry

August 19, 1840 ~ Wednesday

19th A hand pointing to the right I wrot another letter to Phebe & enclosed it
in the one that I wrote to her last evening. {I enclosed a
sovereign and sent Phebe in the letter} I also wrote a letter to Elder Turley
I[n] which I enclosed my letters to Phebe & others which
we sent to him. We took a walk a mile or two into
the city passed London Bridge twice & returned
& spent the night at Kings Arms, King street, Borough
their is so much passings of Drays & horses & singing
& hollowing att all hours of the night in the streets
that it is with difficulty that I could sleep at
night. Elder Kimball & myself bought each of us an umbrella 4 m[iles]

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Kimball, Heber Chase
14 Jun 1801 - 22 Jun 1868
1455 mentions
Apostle
Woodruff, Phebe Whittemore Carter
8 Mar 1807 - 10 Nov 1885
1579 mentions
Family
Turley, Theodore
10 Apr 1801 - 12 Aug 1871

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Aug 19, 1840