Day in the Life
Journal Entry
9 I spent the fore part of the day choreing for myself the afternoon
in the office Capt Gibson called in a short time I had some conver-
sation with him upon Temperal matters He told me that He once
helped a man in France a Frenchman a relative of King Louis
Philip who was imprisioned on some trifling offence and Capt
Gibson through money and influence helped him out of prision
He has arived lately in New York bought a ship & is now on his way to
San francisco with the expectation to put Capt Gibson in command
of it This young Frenchmans Mother gave him $30,000 dollars when he left
her Capt Gibson got a letter From him the last mail, asking him how
he got along with those strange people the mormornsns He expets to
Meet with Capt Gibsons at San francisco but as Capt Gibson has
received the gospel He now awaits the will of God & the council of
his survants he has been to some $150000 expens in his travels upon
the earth and explorations, {but he is now out of funds and means I gave him some twenty-five
dollars worth of provisions today may the Lord bless him}
I attended Orson Pratts lectures in the Tabernacle He discoursed mostly
upon the subject of Hydrolics and made it quite interesting
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