Day in the Life

Feb 23, 1841

Journal Entry

February 23, 1841 ~ Tuesday

23rd Arose in the morning refreshed by sleep s[t]ill felt
weak in body wrot a few lines in my Journal with
a feble hand, A folded letter/box Received 2 letters from E. Bromley & a
Brother in the Potteries. Elder Snow wrote to Elder
Young for me [FIGURE] J. S. B. Last evening the Noble spirited &
celebrated J. S. Buckingham, finished his course of
lecturs concerning his tour throug the United States which
was deliverd to a crouded Audience, while treating upon
the country, government, laws, customs, fassions, religions
sects, & a great variety of other subject, He omitted the
subject of the Mormons, or Latter Day Saints Although He
informed the publick he should speak upon that subject
this was omitted in consequence of receiving a letter the
day previous to his lecture from Dr Copeland inclosing
one of our addresses to the citizens of London, which
clearly showed him, that we were American citizens
Elders of the Church, were in the city, & would have a
knowledge of what he presented before the community
concerning us. Early this morning Dr Copeland recived
a letter from hism acknowledging his ignorance concer
ning our cause & vary much wished information by obta
ining our writings &c. So I made him a present of the
Book of Mormon, the Millennial Star, & other works
& my prayr to God is they may do good. I walked
out as far as Br Connor's & found myself still quite
weak {I saw Phebe time piece stand} many friends called to see
me in the evening, I had many Dreams at night, on one
occasion I was preaching on a plain with another Brother
to a large congregation of Saints who surrounded us when
on a sudden An army of men appeared against us
& we all fled to our village which lay a little Distance of[f]
we had a little boy & travling bag to carry to the city
for safety before I reached the city I awoke. I again
fell asleep & the house whare I was, I thought was
surrounded by a mob, we put our property out of their
way & they soon Dispersed. I then Dreamed of seeing
a prisioner [prisoner] of annother Tongue bound in Irons to be execut-
ed, about 20 of his own nation came around
him & kneeled down & spoke in their own
language

People

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Young, Brigham
1 Jun 1801 - 29 Aug 1877
3440 mentions
Apostle, Family
17 mentions
Connor, Henry Christophilus
about 1781- aft. 1856
46 mentions
8 mentions
Snow, Lorenzo
3 Apr 1814 - 10 Oct 1901
699 mentions
Apostle, Family
Woodruff, Phebe Whittemore Carter
8 Mar 1807 - 10 Nov 1885
1582 mentions
Family
Copeland, William
abt. 1802 - unk.
47 mentions

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London, Middlesex, England
Staffordshire Potteries, Staffordshire, England

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Feb 23, 1841