up his abode their whare he is made comfortable
by the kind treatment of Sister Shelden who is
a worthy Sister indeed

February 18, 1845 ~ Tuesday

18^th I wrote a letter to Elder H. Clark
I spent the fore part of the day at Br
Sheldens. I visited Mr Thomas Holbrook
at 37 Oxford Street Manchester his Lady is a
saint at heart. [FIGURES] In the afternoon in company
with Elders Holmes, Hardy, Miller, Ross, & Sister
Shelden, I visited the Mechanics Institution a
regular Museum many interesting paintings, sculptures
machinery, & a great variety of ancient works
among other things we saw the happy family
consisting of a great variety of animals & birds
such as cats, rats, squirrels, monkeys hedgehogs, pigs
rabits dogs & a great variety of other animals &
birds all in the same cage taking care one for
the other. we saw many electerized. we all
returned to Br Sheldens & took tea. we [e]ach got
our likeness taken or profile we paid 6/ each
In the evening we held a council with the offices
of the Manchester in the Manchester branch, we
had a good time. I spent the night at Br 12 miles
Sheldens (John Druce No 6 Sandford street
Broughton Road Salford) near Manchester

February 19, 1845 ~ Wednesday

19^th I took 3rd class cars & rode through
a deep vale, vary mountaineous each side to
Brig house the nearest Station to Bradford I
here took coach & rod 7 miles to Bradford, it was
an exceding cold morning & I got much chilled
both on the cars & coach making 41 miles travel
before 10 oclok in the morning. I called upon
Br Edward Milnes on Bower street Manchester
Road, Bradford He is the Presiding Elder of the
Bradford Branch I spent the day with him. In
the afternoon Br Sheets Elder Sheets

up his abode their whare he is made comfortable by the kind treatment of sister Shelden who is a worthy sister indeed

February 18, 1845 ~ Tuesday

18th [FIGURE] I wrote a letter to Elder H. Clark I spent the fore part of the day at Br Sheldens. I visited Mr Thomas Holbrook at 37 Oxford Street Manchester his Lady is a saint at heart. ** In the afternoon in company with Elders Holmes, Hardy, Miller, Ross, & sister Shelden, I visited the Mechanics Institution a regular Museum many interesting paintings, sculptures machinery, & a great variety of ancient works among other things we saw the happy family consisting of a great variety of animals & birds such as cats, rats, squirrels, monkeys hedgehogs pigs rabits dogs & a great variety of other animals & birds all in the same cage taking care one for the other. we saw many electerized. we all returned to Br Sheldens & took tea, we each got our likeness taken or profile we paid 6/ each In the evening we held a council with the offices in the Manchester branch, we had a good time. I spent the night at Br (John Druce No 6 Sandford street Broughton Road Salford) near Manchester 12 miles

February 19, 1845 ~ Wednesday

19th I took 3rd class cars & rode through a deep vale, vary mountaineous each side to Brig house the nearest Station to Bradford I here took coach & rod 7 miles to Bradford, it was an exceding cold morning & I got much chilled both on the cars & coach making 41 miles travel before 10 oclok in the morning. I called upon Br Edward Milnes on Bower street Manchester Road, Bradford. He is the Presiding Elder of the Bradford Branch I spent the day with him. In the afternoon Elder Sheets