July 24^th I received A letter from Mother & Eunice Woodruff. 25^th I wrote a letter to Bishop Ripley. July 29^th I wrote a Letter to
Phebe, which I sent by the hand of Sister Jane Benbow, wife of John Benbow, the first family that Recieved me & my testimony in
Herefordshire. I Baptized the whole household 10 in number. He was a large farmer cultivated 600 acres of Land, he sold all out. He let
Us have $1,250 dollars to Print the Hymn Books & 5000 copies of the Book of Mormon. He also advanced $2,500 dollars to help the
company of poor Saints to Nauvvo Nauvoo Ill that went with him was led by Elder Turley 200 in number He gave me $75 dollars
to bear my expenses in opening the work in the city of London in our first mission here. I sent this letter by sister Benbow as an introd-
uction or acquaintance with you, which accquaintance she much desired, their house was always my home while I was in that country they
were worthy people. I Baptized more than a hundred in one pool near their house. He was own brother to W^m Benbow. On the 6^th Day of Aug–
I sealed up a package of 42 Letters, & All my Journals from Montrose to England, & the 1 & 3 No'^s of the Star, & sent to Mrs Woodruff
by the hand of Elder Turley these were all my corresponding letters both from Europe & America, I sent them to you thinking they would
entertain you in a lonely moment or season. Aug 8^th one year ago this day, I took the last parting look, with my Dear Phebe to go on a mission
to fulfill the commandments of God. I wrote A Letter this day to Col L. Wight. Aug 10. I wrote 8 Letters this day, 2 to Phebe one to Ephraim-
Luce, one to N. Thomas one to Margarett Smoot, one to Wm Benbow These I enclosed in one package directed to Phebe W Woodruff, the other
2 were to Eunice Woodruff, & B Young one of these letters directed to Phebe contained a £0.10 a half sovreign this whole package I put into
the hand of Elder Turley myself. 11^th I parted with Elder Turley. 12^th I herd of the Death of Bishop Partridge & of certain signs on
the Miss. River Aug 18^th for the first time I entered the city of LONDON the Metropolis of England Pop 1,600,000 with Elders H C Kimball &
G. A. Smith. Mr's Algood sister to Elder Turley wife kindly received Us & I wrote A Letter to Phebe.

19^th I wrote a letter to Phebe & inclosed
a sovreign £1 & inclosed both in the Letter which I wrote yesterday & forwarded them by mail to Elder Turley to take to Phebe & they reached
in safty. On the 21^st I stood on the top of the Monument built in the memory of the dreadful fire of London in 1666, the highest modern pillar in
the world. J^A^ul^g^y 22nd I received a Letter from Phebe Dated July 2nd which I was truly much rejoiced to receive, & I wrote Phebe 2 letters in return
one yesterday 21^st one to day 22^nd I enclosed both in one & Also £0.10 half a sovreign for Phebe to buy anything with it she pleased for Sarah
& little Willford, this I sent to T. Turley to convey to Phebe which he obtained, this made £7 seven sovreigns which I sent you by Elder Turley
you informed me in your letter of July 2nd you would like some clothing & a cape to we^a^re on the neck. I immediately sent to Manchester
& got Elder Young to go to the store & Purchased another good winter dress for a large elegant worked cape, a nis^c^e shawl shawl
several yards of flannel, the best pair of linen draperry sheets he could find, & several more caps with some other articles all of which
wer carefully done up & sent to Phebe by Elder Turley & in addition to these a bundle of Presents from a sister Eliza Bromley
in the Staffordshire Potteries which I never saw neither did she tell me what they were, was also sent by Elder Turley. Aug 27^th I
wrote another letter to Phebe which I sent by the hand of sister Elizabeth Ravenscroft who went in the same company with Turley. &
this is the reason why I felt sorry that these things could not have fallen into your hands before you went east, that you might enjoyed
the benefit of them & obtained the numerous letters which I s[e]nt [page torn] you by that company for I spared no pains to send you any thing
that was in my power that I thought would make you comfortable, & also comunicated to you by letter evry circumstance of our proced-
ings my labours, the progress of the work, touching upon the sacrafizes we were called to make for the sake of Christ & a Celestial glory
our long seperation, the cause thereof, when I should return. In fine I used evry exertion to comfort your heart what I could knowing that
our seperation had been long, but this seperation was prolonged by no less than the work of God & eternal things, many of these things
were tuched upon, & things about the children on scraps of paper, put into the Parsels, which I expected no eye would see but your
own neithey were they in a suitable state to be forwarded by mail, & the reason that I did not forward you more letters for man⬦
weeks before the company started I was withholding them for private conveyance expectind the company would have started
much sooner than it did. I sent by Elder Turley & the company about a dozen letters of my own hand writing to you besides all my
corresponding letters & Journals as I before said. However as you have not obtained them it cannot be helped though I could have wished it
otherwise, but perhaps you will get the reading of them as soon as I shall the one you sent by Elders O Hide & J. E Page for I have
not yet herd that they have reached N.Y. I have received all your others letters excepting the first & the one just spoken of &
you may rest assured they were a feast & a prize to me, for a letter is next to seeing a friend. Aug 30^th sunday we stood in the street in
the city of London & Preached repentance unto the people next Day Baptized one man Henry Corner, Jr.|Henry Corner]] as good a watch maker as there is in the
city of London he is the first man baptized in the city. Sept 5^th I visited evry part of west Minister Abbey House of Parliament &c Sept 7^th Elder
Turley & 200 saints sail from Liverpool this day. I visited St Pauls Cathedral from the Crypt to the ball being 400 feet in the air & the largest in the world
except the Vat^c^ian at Rome. On the 8^th I saw Prince Albert at Buckingham Palace. 9^th I called upon Mrs Algood, sister to Mrs Turley she
made me a present of a pair of twesers & a nice ring to put keys on to carry to my wife. I purchased a pocket watch that was in pond I paid £2.10. ^S^ Br
Corner cleaned it for me, said it cost £10 when it was made, it was a horizontal watch, caped & Jeweld in 4 holes, with centre second. Sept 10^th I left
London to go to Herefordshire to attend two conferences. Sept 14^th I attended a conference at Bran Green & Gadfield Elm Chapel in Worcestershire
16^th I preached in Elder Kingtons House, we had baptized 50 of the church of Engli^a^nd with most of their musicians in the Town of Dymock The Recter
of the church came against me with a mob of 100 while I was preaching parraded them before the house rank & file under the beat of Drums,
pots, pans, kittles, pails &c & cast a shower of stones & brick through the house for an hour dashed in the windows broke in the roof & though brick stones
& glass flew through the rooms like hail no one ^one^ was injured. The Rector was not present himself but done through his means. On the 21^stsept I
held a conference i^a^t Froom's Hill & at these Two conferences I herd Represented 40 churches, 1007 Saints, 19 Elders, 78 Priest, 15 Teachers,
& 1 Deacon All of which had received the work in that one field (which I opened in March) within six months & a half, one hundred of which
were preachers of the various orders of the Day. including four Clarks of the Church of England thus the Lord has been vary merciful
unto me & blessed me abudantly in my labours for which I feel vary thankful. there has been several hundred added unto those churches
since. Sept 26^th I obtained the 7, 8, & 9^th No of the Times & Seasons. 28^th I attended a conference in the Staffordshire Potteries, herd 231 (saints
represented & 59 officers there was ownly (60) saints in that region when I first commenced my labours there, they now NO near 600.
much of the power of God is manifested in this region about these days. Oct 5^th I rode by coach 36 miles to Manchester with Elder Kimball
was sick, had sumthing like a shake of the ague, it being the first & last i have felt since I left America, here I once more met with the Twelve I wrote
A Letter to Phebe. Oct 6^th I sat with the Twelve in a general conference in Manchester, & Herd Represented 41 conferences & churches containing
3,626 Saints. 81 Elders, 222 Priests, 64 Teachers, & 16 Deacons increase for the last 3 months 1113 Saints 25 E. 96 P. 3 T. & 3 Deacons beside
about 300 saints & official members who have emegrated to Nauvoo & Iowa making about 1400 addition in three months. Oct 7^th I attended a
a discussion at the carpenters hall, to hear a man attempt to prove the Book of Mormon fals & Baptism not essensial, 2000 persons present as the debate was
about to commence a strange Phenomenon happened, the chandeliers contained 36 gas lights⬦ to lighten the Hall, instantly one thirt^d^ of them being 12 in No
birst to attoms. The debate ended with great additions to the saints, (I wrote a letter of great length to the Editors of the Times & Seasons containing
two sheets the size of this printed full giving an account of my travels from Montrose up to the present time oct 7^th this I sent by the hand of
Elder S Mulliner & also your letter Dated Oct 5^th I was also informed that Turley left one letter which I wrote to you with Elder Tay^i^lor which through mistake
this was also sent by Br Mulliner making two for you & one for the Editors He sailed in few days after from Liverpool to Nauvoo via New-
Orleans. Occ^t^ 17^th I preached in Birmingham & 18^th again in London. 19^th I visited the British Museum I saw Pyparus enough to make a hundred
volumns as large as the Bible if decypher'ed. I will tell you about it when I see you. 22 I hired an Academy to preach in in London printed 500 handbills
to notify the people. This day for the first time I herd of the Death of our Dear little Sarah Emma it pe^i^erced my heart like an arrow, but I was soon resigned
the news came in a letter from Manchester, in the evening I attended a missionary meeting Lord Mayor of London was Chairman. 23^rd I received two letters
one from Br Ilus. F. Carter the other from sister Sarah Foss I was truly glad to hear from them. 24^th wrote a lenghty letter to Elias Smith, requested him to
show it to Mrs Woodruff. 26^th Postman brought me 7 letters from the following[,] persons H. C. Kimball, J. Tai^y^lor, O. Pratt, (John Smith, Elias Smith,
Phebe W. Woodruff Albert Petty Margarrett Smoot,) & Hiram Clark. Phebes was Dated July 18^th which spoke of the Death & burial of [FIGURE] Sarah Emma
this letter was interesting & affecting I coppied in^t^ in my Journal. On the 28^th I finished a long communication written to E Robinson
& D. C. Smith signed Kimball, W. Woodruff & G. A. Smith. It was a religious & Historical Letter our labours in London &c I sent it for publication (on
the 30^th of Oct. I wrote A long letter to Phebe W. W., A. Petty, M. T. Smoot, & G. W. Robinson & Directed it to G. W. Robinson with P. W. W.
on the bottom this in answer to yours of 18^th I hope you will obtain it) Nov 2^nd I received a letter from Mother Woodruff. on the Death of uncle
Joseph Hart. It came to my hand the same as your last did, for I was writing to them printing a sheet full like this when I received their letter
the letter was Dated Nov 2^nd which I sent them they got it in 16 Days from its Date) Nov 5^th I Received another letter from Phebe & Br Wm O Clark
Dated Sept 8^th, & I am sorry that while your letters were comforting my heart, that you could not have obtained some of my communications
instead of feeling the emosions of seeming neglect on my part while at the same time I was constantly writing, to you.) I was writing a letter to
George W. Robinson Nov 5^th when your last named letter came to hand, I then directed the remainder to you & informed of the Dates of all the letters
I had sent you the same as I am now doing

Nov 7^th I wrote a full letter to Br Ilus F, Carter. Directed it 118 Bleaker St corner of w⬦st⬦r NY
Please tell me when you write again if he received it. (9^th I herd of the Death of Joseph Smith sen.) Nov 9^th I wrote a vary long letter
to Father & Mother Carter the size of this sheet printed it full, made large extracts from your letters in it & told them about many things in this
country & wrote some to sister Foss in it. I hope they obtained it, if so tell me when you write.) 18^th I wrote a letter to Azmon & Thompson Woodruff
the ownly letter I have written them since I have been in England. 21^st Queen Victoria gave birth to a princes this day.

Nov 22 [FIGURE] I commenced the most
lengthy communication to Phebe that I ever wrote her, made extracts from 30 corresponding letters from various parts of Europe giving an account
of the work of the Lord throughout this land, a part of which I requested to be presented to the Editors for publication. I directed it to Phebe. w. Woodruff,
& mailed it at the American Coffee House in London on the 26^th

29^th Baptized 3 in the citiy. Dec 3^rd I Received A Letter from Phebe Dated oct[.] 6^th
[10] 16^th Elder Kimball got one from his wife both brought n^g^ood news of interest. Elder Young was with us to day we visited the. Tower of London. contain-
ing all the British Armoury & Jewelry crowns &c.) 4^th Kimball wrote to his wife. 7^th we all visited the collage [page torn] Surgeons with Doctor Copeland. which
was interesting.

8^th I visited the Queens Mews or Pimlico containing all her state & private coaches [page torn] [h]arness, horses, & many other things.