I spent two months & seven days after my arrival
in New York in travelling & preaching in New York
New Jersey & Long Island a portion of the time
with parly & Orson pratt I had freequent attacks
during this time of the chills & fever but I preached
almost daily d on the 13 of Dec I attended a
Conference in New York City with Parly P Pratt
and on that day Elder John Taylor arrived in
our midst and it was a happy meeting he had
passed through a severe time of sickness after we
parted but through the mercy [ink blot] of God had been
preserved and was able to continue his journey. He
also informed us that all of the others of the quorum
of the Twelve had suffered a great deal of sickness and
that it was with difficulty that they could travel

After spending 6 days in New York John Taylor Wilford
Woodruff & Theodore Turley sailed out of New York
Harbor for Liverpool on board of the packet ship Oxford
On the 19^th day of Dec 1839 and in the Liverpool docked
on the 11^th Dec ^Jan^ making the voyage from New York to
Liverpool in 23 days we took steerage passage

I spent two months & seven days after my arrival in New York in travelling & preaching in New York New Jersey & Long Island a portion of the time with parly & Orson pratt I had freequent attacks during this time of the chills & fever but I preached almost daily on the 13 of Dec I attended a Conference in New York City with Parly P Pratt and on that day Elder John Taylor arrived in our midst and it was a happy meeting he had passed through a severe time of sickness after we parted but through the mercy ink blot of God had been preserved and was able to continue his journey. He also informed us that all of the others of the quorum of the Twelve had suffered a great deal of sickness and that it was with difficulty that they could travel

After spending 6 days in New York John Taylor Wilford Woodruff & Theodore Turley sailed out of New York Harbor for Liverpool on board of the packet ship Oxford On the 19th day of Dec 1839 and in the Liverpool docked on the 11th Jan making the voyage from New York to Liverpool in 23 days we took steerage passage