December 23, 1840 ~ Wednesday

Dec Wednesday 23^rd I called upon Mr
Phil Filippo Pistrucci 46 Charloette Street
Fitzroy square & I took my first
sitting of two hours & a half for him
to take my Portrait [FIGURE] I conversed with
Him upon the subject of religion, he
had formerly belonged to the Catholic
faith but seeing so much iniquity in the
Priest while in Itily He denyed &
rejected the Roman religion & wrote
against all religions, but is now convinced
of the reality of the gospel of Jesus Christ
& is writing a work in the Italian langu-
age, advocating the gospel of Jesus Christ
& opposing Priestcraft. I gave him a -
rehearsal of the doctrin we believed in & the
progress of the Church he seemed much int-
erested in it & said he believed as we did.
while in the midst of my conversation
Elder Kimball called upon me & I took
a walk with him & Doctor Copeland & his
wife over Blackfriars Bridge & on our return
home in the midst of a croud, we lost Br
Kimball & Sister Copeland & in looking them
up I lost Doc Copeland, & Br Kimball Sister
Copeland so that there was no two of us
out of four to-gether but after being sep-
erated awhile we all four providentially
met at the Covnant Garden, & saw the
wonderful performance of Shakespears
night dream, Madan Vestry &c & returned
home. Distance of the Day 15 mil[e]
[FIGURE] I receive a letter from Elder H Glover

December 24, 1840 ~ Thursday

24 [FIGURE] I wrote a letter to H. Glover &
one to G. D. Watt & O. Pratt this being
Christmas Eve Elder Kimball & myself walked
out into the Streets to see for a moment
what the Busy multitude were about we
Passed through Mutton Street as G. A. Smith
calls it, opposite Saints Lukes Church it was
a market Street for evry kind of flesh &
vegitable, we bought one doz Orranges, one
Doz apples, some Hazelnuts, chesnuts, returned
to our sitting room, & in addition to some