not be alone in coming out & receiving our
doctrin. But with regard to these things they are
all in the hands of God. Doctor Copeland & his wife
has just come in and & wishes us to go to a teatotal
Meeting which is expected to be the greatest Ever held
in London As the celebrated James, Silk, Buckingham is to
occupy the chair. So I will lay down my pen & go
to meeting & in the morning I will tell you
what for a time we had. 29th Well Brother Smith
I attended the best tea total meeting last night that
I ever attended in my life it was held in a kind of theater
in Mitton Street & the Building was crouded full. We
had the most Excellent, Edifying, & interesting address from
the Noted J. S. Buckingham he has just returned from the
United States whare he has Been for two years tralg
travling th[r]ough every part of our own country [ach◇◇◇◇]-
ting Temperance, & the acccount he gave of the United
States, was truly Interesting & correct, & I never sag^w^ a
man do Better justize to such a subject than he
did, he gave an account of all his travels for two years i^d^uring which time he visited New York, Boston, Phili^a^delphia
all the Southern State, the house of Congress, Charleston GeorgiaNew orleansLexingtonKY. Went up the Miss.
River called at St Louis visited Illinois & Iowa extoled
or spoke vary highly of the whole country in that region went
to Galena, Chicago, & the whole length of the Lakes, went
th[r]ough all upper & Lower Canida & held temperance
meetings in all these places, in fine he confirmed our
testimony in evry thing about that country
not be alone in coming out & receiving our
doctrin. But with regard to these things they are
all in the hands of God. Doctor Copeland & his wife
has just come in and & wishes us to go to a teatotal
Meeting which is expected to be the greatest Ever held
in London As the celebrated James, Silk, Buckingham is to
occupy the chair. So I will lay down my pen & go
to meeting & in the morning I will tell you
what for a time we had. 29th Well Brother Smith
I attended the best tea total meeting last night that
I ever attended in my life it was held in a kind of theater
in Mitton Street & the Building was crouded full. We
had the most Excellent, Edifying, & interesting address from
the Noted J. S. Buckingham he has just returned from the
United States whare he has Been for two years
travling through every part of our own country ach◇◇◇◇-
ting Temperance, & the acccount he gave of the United
States, was truly Interesting & correct, & I never saw a
man do Better justize to such a subject than he
did, he gave an account of all his travels for two years
during which time he visited New York, Boston, Philadelphia
all the Southern State, the house of Congress, Charleston
GeorgiaNew orleansLexingtonKY. Went up the Miss.
River called at St Louis visited Illinois & Iowa extoled
or spoke vary highly of the whole country in that region went
to Galena, Chicago, & the whole length of the Lakes, went
through all upper & Lower Canida & held temperance
meetings in all these places, in fine he confirmed our
testimony in evry thing about that country
"Letter to George Albert Smith, 28 December 1840," p. 2, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed April 23, 2024, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/Yvm0