After visiting this room & parting with the Saints
we took rail road & went to the mountain took coach
road over the mountain then railroad to Manchester
spent the night with Br Shelden distanc[e] of the day
45.
August 27, 1845 ~ Wednesday
27th I spent the day in Manchester Dined with Mr Holebrook & took tea with ◊Br Shelden, then Parted
with BMr Holebrook Br Holmes & the Saints took cars
rode to Liverpool & spent the night at home 30 m
[FIGURE]
August 28, 1845 ~ Thursday
28th [FIGURES] I recieved 3 letters & wrote 3 and spent
the day at the office 4
August 29, 1845 ~ Friday
29th [FIGURES] I recieved 2 letters & wrote 2. I went
to the Clarence Dock in the evening to meet Br
[blank] Armstrong but he did not◊ come. I
recieved two pair of raisors from Br Thompson
of Sheffield one pair was from Henry Thompson
bearing the following inscription W. Woodruff [FIGURE]
& the other Pair was from Thomas Hardy bearing
the following inscription W. Woodruff [FIGURE]
they were both an excellent article [FIGURE]
[FIGURE] I wrote one letter to Br Dwight Webster
August 30, 1845 ~ Saturday
30th [FIGURES] I recieved 3 letters & wrote 3 & in the
evening I took cars with my wife and Joseph the
young child and rode to Preston during which time
we had a view of the commencement of the English
harvest we saw many fields of wheat and oats & grass
cut and put up it was a plesent ride indeed I met
Br Hardy at the station he accompanied us to Sister
Creens whare we spent the night distance 35 m
"Journal (January 1, 1845 – December 31, 1846)," August 27, 1845 - August 30, 1845, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed May 22, 2022, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/documents/48cbe06c-21b4-43af-b497-91648c43f481/page/f4ddc934-db52-449a-985f-f3b11ba03050