Letter to Aphek and Azubah Hart Woodruff, 18 April 1845
36 Chapel Street Liverpool
Father & Mother Woodruff
Having an opportunity
of Forwarding a letter by private conveyance
to the United States by an Elder who is about to
sail to Boston, I thought I would drop a few
lines to you, to let you know that we are in
the land of the living & in the enjoyment of good
health. I have felt vary anxious to hear from
you since we have been here but have not as
yet herd a word from you or about you since
We left New York and at that time you was in
sumthing of an unsettled state in your temporal
affairs. I suppose you would like to know sumthing
what I am doing in this land. I will therefore say
that I have had more business on hand since my arival
here than at any one time During life. I found the
Saints needed much council & many alterations th[r]ough
various portions of the British dominions. I have taken
a tour though Scotland & a part of England since
I came I have held many conferences since I came
We held our general conference at Manchester on
6th April it lasted th[r]ee & a half days & more business
done than ever before in any one conference in England
their was represented on that occasion ten thousand Saints
save 90, in England, Scotland, Ireland & Wales, & incliding
their families would probably amount to 30,000 souls
We had a large congregation to team these churches represe-
nted, & besides the business of leaving the churches represented,
& appointing the Elders to take charge of them and attending to the
business that necessarily has to be done at such conferences
We esstablished a Joint stock company for the purpose
of esstablishing manufactories in Nauvoo the whole stock
