5th The Efagy of Guydo [Guido] Fawkes is before our door
this morning attended by about 100 boys they are
carrying him through the streets of London in
memory of the great gun powder plot on the 5th of Nov
1605. I received two letters one from Elder
Samuel Jones containing £1 & good news
[FIGURE] {Phebe} I received a letter from Phebe & Elder Wm
Clark which gave me great joy it was Dated
Sept 8th 1840 Mrs Woodruff bears her affliction
with patience & resignation, haveing lost one child,
& the other is sick, but her own health is quite good
at present she is at Father Clarks & comfortable for
temporal things. Elder Wm O. Clark says do not
trouble yourself about Phebe & little Willford for they
shall not want any thing that I can bestow & may
God hold it as an everlasting covenant between me &
thee. He further says the temporal state of the
Church was never in a more prosper state than at the
present time. No mobing at the present time in this
country but gathering vary rapid a number of
familie[s] arived from England Phebe had had
an interview with Br Wm Benbow
We wrote two letters one to Elder Geo. W.
Robinson & one to Elder W Richards I wrote
to Phebe in Robinsons letter & gave her an account of
all the letters I had sent her
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