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Day in the Life

Apr 15, 1841

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April 15, 1841 ~ Thursday

15^th we sent our trunks & baggage on the baggage
cars & we bid old Manchester with all their was
in it farewell left Elder P. P. Pratt his wife &
children in good health & spirits Sister Olive frost
was with them in good health we left them
with a store of Books of Mormon Hymn Book
voice of warning, Poems, tracts, & Stars for
sale. Elders Young O. Pratt, myself, G A Smith
& Levi Richards, took cars & rode to Liver-
pool. G A Smith & myself took up our abode at
Br Harringtons milk house top of Gunville street
near Mill end Scotland Road Liverpool, we arived
Just in time to attend a splended tea meeting
of the Saints at the music hall Liverpool, 200 Saints
sat at the table, the Saints have rented this
hall for their meetings it will seat about 2000
this is the first time I have visited Liverpool
since I first landed. It gave me peculiar feelings
to sit down with 200 Saints in this place think-
ing that when we first landed that [there] was not one
in the city but ourselves, after tea we were
introduced to this intelligent body of Saints &
the quorum of the Twelve addressed them in
few words, after which we were dissmissed our
quorum met a few moments, & concluded
to sail on Tuesday which will make us vary
busy untill that time [FIGURE] I received a letter
from Elder Kington