Letter from Willard Trowbridge Snow, 27 January 1852
Glasgo
Beloved brother Wilford Woodruff Dear Sir Having safely
landed on this side the rolling deep among the Saints in these
British Islands in good health and spirits I avail myself of
the present opportunity to redeem at an early day the promise I
made you of writing in the which I wish also to stir up your
pure mind by way of rememberance of a similer favour which
you promised me previous to my leaving Salt Lake City
Although I may not have any thing to write of sufficent
importance to interest you much yet I am nevertheless not
the less anxious to know what has befallen the Saints and of all
that passes in the wilderness among the vallies & mountans a choice
spot of earth rendered doubly dear to me since my departure
by ten thousand sacred recollections of the past never to be forgotten
It is true as you well know that I had set my heart on
enjoying the society of my brother in councill the present
winter and discoursing over matters of interest for the good of the
common cause relating to both politicks & religion & as well as
policy & power of our civil govermant but was unexpectedly
called away into a new field of labour and now find
myself I had like to have said alone in this foreign country
so far from my former friends and neare and deer associates
that it is with difficulty I can even hear from them except
through those fugitive officers from Utah viz Brochus Brandebury
& Harris who seem to be inspired by three unclean spirits to
Gather to gather all the false and slanderous misrepresentations and
accusations that have been circulated by the Great accuser of the brether
for the last twenty years and embody them all in one official
bundle in the which they have poured out the vials of their
wrath without mixture into the capital city of washington
calculated to arouse ^the people^ and agan kindle war against the remnants
of the saints who have the testimony of Jesus & keep his
commandments & have fled and are fleeing to the wilderness
among the mountains for a place of safety & reffuge from
among the Nations Their official Report to President Filmore
together with the news of the furning burning of a large portion
