for your consolation I sit down to drop a few
lines to you to inform you that we are all well &c.
our conference is closed & we are on our way to Connecticut
we had a glorious time the spirit of God was poured out
upon us all I preached on Sunday the 11th in the forepart
of the Day when I closed five presented themselves for
Baptism Elder Page administered the ordinance of Baptism
unto them on Monday morning we had the Happy
privilege of an interview with Elder Goodson &
Priest Snider who left Kirtlandsoon a short time
before us they are now with us on their way to England
will go with Elders Kimball & Hyde. We took the
parting hand with Elder's Page, Blakesley & many others on
Monday Morning & travled on foot 18 miles to another
Branch of the Church on our way to Kingston & held an
Evening Meeting with them all of us bore testimony to
the truth viz. Hale, Holmes, Goodson, Snider, & myself
the spirit of God rested upon us so much so that under
the administration of our hands the Sick were healed &
Devils were cast out, &c. we came to Kingston by land
yesterday & we met in Kingston streets this morning
two brethren viz Brother John Gribble who will carry
both of my letters to you, & Brother Russel from Torro-
nto who is going to England with the rest. we are all of us
now about to take the Steam Boat Great Britian for Oswego we will be in Oswego in few hours from this
I though[t] I would write a few lines to you as I had
an opportunity of sending it by Brother Gribble but I
must write in great haste for the boat is about to leave
I want you to be sure & write to me at ColbrookCon
for your consolation I sit down to drop a few
lines to you to inform you that we are all well &c.
our conference is closed & we are on our way to Connecticut
we had a glorious time the spirit of God was poured out
upon us all I preached on Sunday the 11th in the forepart
of the Day when I closed five presented themselves for
Baptism Elder Page administered the ordinance of Baptism
unto them on Monday morning we had the Happy
privilege of an interview with Elder Goodson &
Priest Snider who left Kirtland a short time
before us they are now with us on their way to England
will go with Elders Kimball & Hyde. We took the
parting hand with Elder's Page, Blakesley & many others on
Monday Morning & travled on foot 18 miles to another
Branch of the Church on our way to Kingston & held an
Evening Meeting with them all of us bore testimony to
the truth viz. Hale, Holmes, Goodson, Snider, & myself
the spirit of God rested upon us so much so that under
the administration of our hands the Sick were healed &
Devils were cast out, &c. we came to Kingston by land
yesterday & we met in Kingston streets this morning
two brethren viz Brother John Gribble who will carry
both of my letters to you, & Brother Russel from Torronto who is going to England with the rest. we are all of us
now about to take the Steam Boat Great Britian for
Oswego we will be in Oswego in few hours from this
I thought I would write a few lines to you as I had
an opportunity of sending it by Brother Gribble but I
must write in great haste for the boat is about to leave
I want you to be sure & write to me at ColbrookCon
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"Letter to Phebe Whittemore Carter Woodruff, 14 June 1837," p. 1, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed January 15, 2025, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/kRjr