Day in the Life

Feb 18, 1845

Journal Entry

February 18, 1845 ~ Tuesday

18th A hand pointing to the right I wrote a letter to Elder H. Clark
I spent the fore part of the day at Br
Sheldens. I visited Mr Thomas Holbrook
at 37 Oxford Street Manchester his Lady is a
saint at heart. [FIGURES] In the afternoon in company
with Elders Holmes, Hardy, Miller, Ross, & Sister
Shelden, I visited the Mechanics Institution a
regular Museum many interesting paintings, sculptures
machinery, & a great variety of ancient works
among other things we saw the happy family
consisting of a great variety of animals & birds
such as cats, rats, squirrels, monkeys hedgehogs, pigs
rabits dogs & a great variety of other animals &
birds all in the same cage taking care one for
the other. we saw many electerized. we all
returned to Br Sheldens & took tea. we [e]ach got
our likeness taken or profile we paid 6/ each
In the evening we held a council with the offices
of the Manchester in the Manchester branch, we
had a good time. I spent the night at Br 12 miles
Sheldens (John Druce No 6 Sandford street
Broughton Road Salford) near Manchester

People

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Miller, Charles Dutton
24 Aug 1816 - 22 Jan 1878
22 mentions
5 mentions
Clark, Hiram, b. 1795
22 Sep 1795 - 28 Dec 1853
118 mentions
30 mentions
Druce, John
18 Jun 1818 - 7 Oct 1897
26 mentions
Hardy, Leonard Wilford
31 Dec 1805 - 31 Jul 1884
233 mentions
Family
5 mentions
Holmes, Milton
16 Jan 1811 - 30 Apr 1881
218 mentions
Maine Mission
5 mentions
Shelden, Thomas Sheldon
abt. 1814 - unk.
12 mentions

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Manchester, Lancashire, England
Salford, Lancashire, England

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Feb 18, 1845