Leigh, Gloucestershire, England. . Elder H. C. Kimball & G. A. Smith. Beloved Brethern, I am in the midst of the saints at the Leigh enjoying good health & spirits. & while meditating upon the scenes which have transpired with me during the last 23 days which has been spent with you on a mission in the City of London, I feel disposed to pen a few of my thoughts on paper for your perusal. Brethren this is the first mission we have ever enjoyed together in the vineyard. Can we for a moment say that our time hath been spent in vain during this period? Nay we cannot the spirit within me forbids it. Have we not profited by this school of experianc? yea much evry way. While the Lord hath manifested by revelation that it is his will that we should obtain a knowledge of Kindgdoms & countries, this mission hath placed us in a situation to avail our- selves of the desired information upon many things that which we could not otherwise have obtained. Time will clearly show that the late mission which we have enjoyed together in the City of London (which is still continued by your labours) will ever be firmly engraved in our minds & occupy an important place, In the history of our travels among the Nations of the Earth. When London feels the chastning hand of the ALMIGHTY & in her turn amid the revolutions of the gentile world finds her doom is sealed with her lofty spires, synagogues, mansion, & pallaces, laid in one common ruin, then with what feelings shall we address our children or the thousands that may surround us, while our heads are blossoming with age, as we point to the 21st day of September ^october Aug^ 1840, when we stood together upon the top of the most splended & highest modern pillar in the Univers & with the naked eye surveyed the most populous & wealthy city upon the face of the earth, which we can then exclaim hath been the theater of much misry & wo, but now sleeps in death. We ^having in my possessin a history of places visited I feel disposed to give the same {that [and may he] give} a correct {account of} the {same} to refer to^ shall not readily forget ^on the 24th oct we visited^ Oct [Aug] 24th while we walked to & fro through St Pauls Cathedral which was 500 feet in length 285 in bredth 404 in highth which was 40 years in building from 1675 to 1715 which cost £136000 or $3,680,000 ^£l,567,076,15. $ 5880,380^ which contains 47 monuments of fine marble erected over the Tombs of certain Lords Bishops Generals Earls & other titles who had distinguished themselves in the military service of Great Brit- ian & otherwise, Lord Nelsons being the most noted, & while historians have taken much interest in the origen of this cathedral dedicated St Paul which was first built by St Augustine in the year 610, & now considered the largest cathedral in the world excepting the Vatian at Rome dedicated to St Peter. We ^ourselves^ can clearly see the gentiles are zealous in a form of Godliness while they deny the power thereof, for while this church stands in honor to St Paul, those who whorship therein utterly reject & deny the principles which he tought. Again I think we shall not doubt the words of Soloman when he said man had sought ought many inventions esspecially when we reflect back to the 1st day of Sept, when We desended together about 40 feet into the Bowels of the earth & walked throught the Thames Tunnel with the River Thames & British shiping over our heads which was opening a thorough fare from one shore to the other which was finished 1110 ^feet^ & was lighted with gas, arched overhead & considered one of the greatest wonders of the last days. The time we spent together on the 5th of Sept Visiting Westminster Abbey was not unprofitable, had we travled the world oer we could not have found another spot that would have pre- sented a wider field of knowledge & of contemplation as touching the history of the rise, progress, & fall of Kings, Princes Lords & mighty men of Gentile greatness pride & boast. This Abbey was composed of eleven Chapels (ownly seperated by walls or petitions)