New Orleans Oct 28th [18]45 Beloved Brother Woodruf In compliance with your request at parting with ^you^ for the land that all the Saints are so anxiouce to be gathe[r]ed to. aAfter encountering many hardships and Trials in crossing the Atlantic I can Fully rejoice and say that the Saints one and all are so overjoyed now we are landed and about to move further up the River from the City of Joseph I need not entrer into a detail of all the ups and downs there ...

uplifted in spirit and rejoices in the God of Abraham Isaac & Jacob when we Entered upon the Missippi River how can I paint to you in the most true language the scenery that met our view upon both Banks of the River. A thick shrubery of beautifull Green foilage seemed to line the sides all they way up, with a hut scattered here and there which enlivedd the seen to see people seemingly happy and content and the best of all they were in the Land of Liberty and where not affraid of ...

the Hillander My partner and myself have had A walk in New Orleans and I must say that it is ceartainly a place of Business and all life hurrie and bustle but the working people look more contented than in England, and apear more Respectable and free Just as if one Master was too much the Tyrant they could Soon get annother the people in New Orleans are a sallow complexion sort of people ^and unhealty^ sort of people or as if they wer treubled with a continuance of ill health. I have not ...

Mr Wilfred Woodruff Stanly Buildings Bath St Liverpool England [upside-down text] from John Armstrong New Orleans Oct. 28, 1845 [end of upside-down text] [Stamp in black ink] AMERICA LIVERPOOL NO 28 1845 [Stamp in black ink] La. NEW ORLEANS OCT 30 [Stamp in black ink] PAID ...