My Dear Phebe
In compay with John Taylor & Theadore Turley I sit down & in great haste drop a few
lines to you to inform you that we have this day just
arivd in this City by way of the packet Ship Oxford which left New York dock on the 19th of Dec & Saild on the 20th this
is the 23d day Sine we set Sail. We have made an excedg [exceeding]
good voyage considering the time of the year & weather, the
Steam Ship Liverpool left New York 5 days before the Oxford
& yet we reachd the dock at Liverpool about 10 minutes before
her & about 30 minutes before the Indipendance that left N.Y.
10 days before us the Oxford, Liverpool, & Indipendance, all reachd
Liverpool at the same hour. We had rough weather the foore
part of the voyage sone of the tine it blew a gale but it was
quite plesant the latter part of the time We were becalned
4 days. we were a little Sea Sick the first few days but
very healthy since I think our Sea voyage has done us
all good for we are all quite harty & healthy. We were 20
days out of sight of land. We had 107 souls on board composed of
Anercans [Americans], English, Scotch, Irish, Weltch, Dutch, &c. We took
Stearage pasage fare $15. dollars, We were quite crowded but the
weather was quite comfortable I was quite pleased to once more
walk on land esspecially to tread the Soil of Old Englad I have
been quite pleased with Liverpool what little I have seen
of it excepting the Smoke which is quite Dense We have just
My Dear Phebe
In compay with John Taylor &
Theadore Turley I sit down & in great haste drop a few
lines to you to inform you that we have this day just
arivd in this City by way of the packet Ship Oxford which left
New York dock on the 19th of Dec & Saild on the 20th this
is the 23d day Sine we set Sail. We have made an exceeding
good voyage considering the time of the year & weather, the
Steam Ship Liverpool left New York 5 days before the Oxford
& yet we reachd the dock at Liverpool about 10 minutes before
her & about 30 minutes before the Indipendance that left N.Y.
10 days before us the Oxford, Liverpool, & Indipendance, all reachd
Liverpool at the same hour. We had rough weather the foore
part of the voyage sone of the tine it blew a gale but it was
quite plesant the latter part of the time We were becalned
4 days. we were a little Sea Sick the first few days but
very healthy since I think our Sea voyage has done us
all good for we are all quite harty & healthy. We were 20
days out of sight of land. We had 107 souls on board composed of
Americans, English, Scotch, Irish, Weltch, Dutch, &c. We took
Stearage pasage fare $15. dollars, We were quite crowded but the
weather was quite comfortable I was quite pleased to once more
walk on land esspecially to tread the Soil of Old Englad I have
been quite pleased with Liverpool what little I have seen
of it excepting the Smoke which is quite Dense We have just
"Letter to Phebe Whittemore Carter Woodruff, 12 January 1840," p. 1, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed May 8, 2024, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/0xG