16th
I wrote a letter to Mrs Woodruff after
a long mornings walk. A man & his wife called
to be baptized He was Br to James Parsons of Nauvoo
who has lately come to this country obtained some
£300 pounds in money taken a young girl run away
with her not intending to return to his wife in
Nauvoo for this crime we have cut him off
from the Church. I took Dinner with Br Morris
took tea with Br Crump & returned home whar [there were]
[FIGURE]
2 letters for me one from President Brigham
Young of Nauvoo & the other from Mrs
Woodruff of Liverpool both of which I was
glad to obtain. I wrote one in return to Mrs Wood-
ruff she sent me some of the Hair of Joseph
Smith & the whole of the Smith Family & the
quorum of the Twelve to put into a finger ring
distance of the day 6 miles
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