Dec 30th With regard to the progress of the Work of the Lord in
this Land it is still rolling on in all parts, & emigration
is vary great. The Saints deeply feel the forebodeings of the
awful judgments, distress war & tribulations which is coming
like a whilrwind upon every hand. On Sunday last we had
a conference in London which is the first conference we
have ever held in this Metropolis. We had an interesting time
106 Saints represented most of which have imbraced the work
of late, 46 in the London City Branch & the rest in the regions
round about, in small Branches which we have raised up of
late mostly. Their is now a fair prospect of the spread of
the work in London Elder Lorenzo Snow is appointed to
preside over & take charge of the churches & conference
which we have esstablished in London, & the Lord has given
me the desire of my heart, in seeing the work esstablished in
this city, & I now feel that I can depart ^depart^ in peace
I feel that my work is done in this Land & my testimony
finished, or will be this week & then was it not for visiting
the churches which I have built up in Herefordshire &c to
get the necessary means to return &c. it should not
be many days before I would be upon the sea, but I
must have patience iat all times & get along as fast as
I can. We are leaving our last testimony to the citizens
of London in a small tract of 8 Pages 3000 of which will be
out of press this week which we leave with our friends for circu-
lation after we are gone. Elder Kimball takes his farewell
of the city tomorrow, & goes to BirminghamPreston & Liverpool, whare he meets Elders Young & Taylor. I take my
[sideways text] On the 26th of Jan I had an excellent view of her Majesty the Queen Victoria & Prince Albert they passed in
10 feet of us in the state carrage drawn by 8 cream coulord Hanovarian horses through the park to open parliamen[t]
their was Judged to be over 300,000 persons congregated on the occasion [end of sideways text]
Dec 30th With regard to the progress of the Work of the Lord in
this Land it is still rolling on in all parts, & emigration
is vary great. The Saints deeply feel the forebodeings of the
awful judgments, distress war & tribulations which is coming
like a whilrwind upon every hand. On Sunday last we had
a conference in London which is the first conference we
have ever held in this Metropolis. We had an interesting time
106 Saints represented most of which have imbraced the work
of late, 46 in the London City Branch & the rest in the regions
round about, in small Branches which we have raised up of
late mostly. Their is now a fair prospect of the spread of
the work in London Elder Lorenzo Snow is appointed to
preside over & take charge of the churches & conference
which we have esstablished in London, & the Lord has given
me the desire of my heart, in seeing the work esstablished in
this city, & I now feel that I can depart in peace
I feel that my work is done in this Land & my testimony
finished, or will be this week & then was it not for visiting
the churches which I have built up in Herefordshire &c to
get the necessary means to return it should not
be many days before I would be upon the sea, but I
must have patienceat all times & get along as fast as
I can. We are leaving our last testimony to the citizens
of London in a small tract of 8 Pages 3000 of which will be
out of press this week which we leave with our friends for circulation after we are gone. Elder Kimball takes his farewell
of the city tomorrow, & goes to BirminghamPreston &
Liverpool, whare he meets Elders Young & Taylor. I take my
sideways text On the 26th of Jan I had an excellent view of her Majesty the Queen Victoria & Prince Albert they passed in
10 feet of us in the state carrage drawn by 8 cream coulord Hanovarian horses through the park to open parliament
their was Judged to be over 300,000 persons congregated on the occasion end of sideways text
"Letter to Phebe Whittemore Carter Woodruff, 18 February 1841," p. 2, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed April 19, 2024, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/M8yQ