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Nov 20, 1860

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November 20, 1860 ~ Tuesday

20 A cool morning but Plesant I wrote a Letter to Elder O Hyde
I spent most of the day in the office

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Brother Gibson said that He was about to take another mission was going to Jappan, Siam, & the Malay Islands. He has had an invitation by the Historian of Jappan to visit that Land, is intimately acquainted with the King of Siam & has been strongly invited by the princes & Chiefs of the Malay Islands to visit them. He seems to have been raised up as an instrument in the Hands of God to open the way among those Nations for the receptions of the gospel President Young Blessed him & said He would go with a commission to all Nations upon the Earth & he should go with his good will & blessing.

~ Wilford Woodruff

The Mountaineer to day contains the news By Poney Express concerning the withdrawal of the Southern States from the union it commenced in South Carolina in fulfillment of the prophecy [FIGURES] of Joseph Smith the Prophet or the revelation of the Lord through him which has been published in the pearl of Great Price & written in various Books for many years it really looks as though the United States were ripe for the Harvest

~ Wilford Woodruff

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Letter to Orson Hyde, 20 November 1860

Great Salt Lake City U T Elder O Hyde Dear Sir According to promise I visited your vineyard a short time since and I found ^it^ one of the greatest wilderness I have ever seen in this Territory but I went into it with a good will & after cutting out about a cord of wood I brought it down to vary good Dimentions I cut out evry stock of old wood & left Enough of the good bearing canes to load your frames with good fruit next season I am satisfied you will have a good crop of grapes next year if the Elements are Right for producing it I showed your son How to buy them &c. your family was all well we have had some cold snow storms of Late but the vally at present is bear we had

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