Letter to Phebe Whittemore Carter Woodruff, 21 August 1840

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Letter to Phebe Whittemore Carter Woodruff, 21 August 1840
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    19 King St, Borough, London, Aug 21st, 1840 ^& (2 days later from London)^ My Dear Wife when I wrote my last under dat of 2^1^9th I though[t] it would be the last you would recceve from me by the hand of Elder Turley but having just returned to my room in company with Br's Kimball & Smith from an Interesting walk of 8 hous walk in visiting many parts of the city of London & passing through such ...
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    in steem Boates. we had clear view of the mint, & Lord Mayors mansion & in fine the whole city. A Prussian traveller, citizen of Berlin was with us, & we had much conversation with him, he had travled over Europe & Asia & many other parts of the world & he del^c^laired this to be the highest monument & the grandest & most sublime prospect, that could be found upon the face of the Earth. As I Before said "this monument was Erected on the ground whereon stood the ...
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    will get tired of reading so many letters from me at once but perhaps it may make up the vacancy of five long months in which you have not herd from me though I have not let that length of time slip without writing to you. I have never seen any account giving particlulars of your situation for the first few months after I left you untill the letter I receved this day. I am well aware you have suffered some of the time since I left you for the wait of friends or some one to ...
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    Aug 24th I attended meeting yesterday at Zions Chapel watterloo Road & herd [2] ^three^ sermons for th from the celebrated Robert Aitken. we were much Edifyed with some of his preaching, ie he is looking for things in some degree as they will take place. he says the sectarian world will be damned for they are not of God he says the judgments of God will spedily fall upon the whole gentile world. But notw[ith] [page turned down] standing he sees all these things he has rejected us in all parts of