First Thursday of the month designated for fasting and prayer (later changed to first Sunday by Wilford).
10th [FIGURE] I took one of my long London rambles
to day I arose at 5 oclock took a walk of
about one mile to take the morning air it was
a hot clear morning on my return I found
Sister Susannah S. Sangiovannah with her little
boy had called in her mornings walk to see us
she inquired about her Fathers family & Saints in
Nauvoo seemed vary anxious to get there. before
she left I laid my hands upon her head & left
a blessing with her I walked with her on her return
home about a mile she sent her respects to Mrs Woodruff
enquired about Brs Kimball & G. A. Smith as she
was formerly acquainted with them. I returned
home & took breakfast & then In company with
Br Davis we walked through the city to Br Coopers
in St Lukes City Road & took a luncheon with him
we then walked to the Monument at the end of
London Bridge from there to the Tower called
upon Br Story who went with us through
the Tower we visited that Part that was birnt over
containing the Armery their was fourteen hundred
thousand stand of small arms burned. the old
morters cannon &c was strung along in a yard that
was saved from the fire some of them was
partially melted by the fire we visited the New
armery got up as a kind of make shift ownly
about 7000 stand put up. After visiting the tower
& Dining with Br Story we went through the
Thames Tunnel from thence we took tee with
Mr Booth who had been to Nauvoo & worked with
Elder Turley
We then called upon Mrs AOsgood King st Borough
London Br Turleys wifes sister found them all
well we then crossed London Bridge took a strait
line through the city to 10 Thornhill street Pentonville
& spent the night It was a hot sultry Day, & I got
feet sore & was vary weary when I retired to bed
the whole Distance that I walked in the city of London
this day was about 16 miles
I wrote a letter to Mrs Woodruff
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