Called upon to go on Missions to Europe & to go with Brother Blair West
on an exploring tour. Elder Thomas Bullock our chief Clerk in the
Historians office

August 11, 1856 ~ Monday

11^th I put in 28 Apricott buds this morning into plum & peach stocks
I spent the day in the office. The First Presidency B. Young H. C. Kimball
& J. M. Grant spent the afternoon with us to day in hearing the minutes
of the April Conference of 1844 read, the last conference the 12 ever
spent with the prophet Joseph before his death

August 12, 1856 ~ Tuesday

12^th I spent the day in hearing the Church History read to Presidents
B Young H. C. Kimball & J. M. Grant D. H. Wells was also present
we read through the 22nd of June

August 13, 1856 ~ Wednesday

13^th [FIGURE] Presidents B Young H C Kimball J. M. Grant & D H Wells
spent the day in the office reading History we finished up to the [illegible]
death of Joseph in Carthage Jail, the brethren felt full & felt that
they had heard enough for one day we all dined with President Kimball
viz the Presidency & Wells & myself. I attended the 14 ward meeting
of Agricultural society & organized an Auzilary branch of the
Agricultural & manufacturing society appointed Bishop Hoagland
president & C. H. Basset John R. Winder D. Candland & G Clements
Directors.

Dr Luke Johnson called upon me in the evening
& conversed upon affairs in Rush valley

August 14, 1856 ~ Thursday

14^th I spent the day in the office. President Young spent the day at home
President Kimball was also at home. Aslso President Grant. He called in
the office spoke his views concerning some items of Markhams statement
concerning Josephs remarks in Jail my family were in the field gleaning
wheat & have been for the last week most of the we are trying to save
all the wheat that we have grown so that nothing be lost I met in
council with ^J. C^ Little Cummings & L Johnson concerning matters in
Rush valley we concluded to survey it & controll matters there according
to the charter given us

August 15, 1856 ~ Friday

15^th President Young rode up City Creek Canyon in the morning
spent the day in the office reading History. I read an Article in the working
Farmer concerning the Cultivation of the Black bury esspecially
the Lawton black bury the best in the known world they measure
3 or 4 inches in Circumference & more than 600 burries have been
raised on the laterals of a single stem. Can we not get someone
in the states to send us some of the roots or seeds this berry was
named after Mr Lawton by the American Institute of New
York as he was the man who first found it by the rode side or in
his field whare it originated no one knows. we had a vary
hard shower of rain & hail in the afternoon. Presidents Young &
Kimball came in & we red History to them & D. H. Wells Mrs Woodruff
& phebe & Susan spent the night in the harvest field or about it
also Father Woodruff they got thoroughly soaked with rain

August 16, 1856 ~ Saturday

16^th we had a vary hard rain through the forenoon I went into the
field in the forenoon after my Family we all got vary wet I went
to the office in the afternoon President Young went North to day to
Farmington accompanied by Presidents Kimball & Grant & profesor
Carrington who took minutes of the Journey & they attended a meeting
of the citizens upon the subject of takeing out the webber river