Day in the Life

Dec 23, 1840

Journal Entry

December 23, 1840 ~ Wednesday

Dec Wednesday 23rd I called upon Mr
Phil Filippo Pistrucci 46 Charloette Street
Fitzroy square & I took my first
sitting of two hours & a half for him
to take my portrait A humanoid I conversed with
Him upon the subject of religion. he
had formerly belonged to the Catholic
faith but seeing so much iniquity in the
priest while in Itily He denyed &
rejected the Roman religion & wrote
against all religions, but is now convinced
of the reality of the gospel of Jesus Christ
& is writing a work in the Italian langu-
age, advocating the gospel of Jesus Christ
& opposing priestcraft I gave him a
rehearsal of the doctrin we believed in & the
progress of the Church he seemed much int-
erested in it & said he believed as we did.
while in the midst of my conversation
Elder Kimball called upon me & I took
a walk with him & Doctor Copeland & his
wife over Blackfriars Bridge & on our return
home in the midst of a croud, we lost Br
Kimball & Sister Copeland & in looking them
up I lost Doc Copeland, & Br Kimball Sister
Copeland so that there was no two of us
out of four to-gether but after being sep-
erated awhile we all four providentially
met at the Covnant Garden, & saw the
wonderful performance of Shakespears
night dream, Madan Vestry &c & returned
home. Distance of the Day 15 mils
A folded letter/box I receive a letter from Elder H Glover

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Kimball, Heber Chase
14 Jun 1801 - 22 Jun 1868
1455 mentions
Apostle
Glover, Henry
1812-abt. 1841
2 mentions
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Copeland, William
abt. 1802 - unk.
10 mentions
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Dec 23, 1840