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Day in the Life

Sep 15, 1845

Journal Entry

September 15, 1845 ~ Monday

15th I spent the day in Manchester with
Elders Holmes & Ross we took tea
with friend Holebrook In company with
Mrs Woodruff & others firiends I went
through the Manchester Museum among
other curiosities we saw the representation
in glass of the Largest diamond in the world
now in the possession of the Emperor of
Russia about the size of a turkeys egg
valued at £125,000000 pound sterling
or $625,000,000 dollars

during the evening we rode to Newton
& spent the night with Br Simpkins 20 m[iles]

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Woodruff, Phebe Whittemore Carter
8 Mar 1807 - 10 Nov 1885
1546 mentions
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Manchester, Lancashire, England
Newton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire, England

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Business/Financial - Receipt for Printing of Doctrine and Covenants, 7 November 1845
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Letter from William Wines Phelps, 15 September 1845
Nauvoo, Ill. . Bro. W. Woodruff: Ido not often trouble my friends with letters, on account of a multiplicity of business, which deters me from writing. We are now in thee midst of another great mob. From fifty to sixty houses have been burnt in thes Green plains and Lima branches of the church, and of course two or three hundred people thrown houseless into the naked air to perish. The French drove the Arabs into the cave and smoked them to death, but the Americans drive the saints out of their houses, burn them, and leave the inmates to famish: which exhibits the most shocking barbtyarity, in this christian age? Last night bro Fellows, 4 miles this side of Carthage, had his house, barn, and grain burnt. Writz are out for the "Twelve" and others upon the grave charge of Treason. We are at peace in Nauvoo. The Temple is finishing rapidly. The steeple is outwardly finished and looks grand.
Letter from William Wines Phelps, 15 September 1845
Answered Oct 29th 1845 [end of upside-down text]

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Sep 15, 1845