Stanley Buildings Bath Street Liverpool Oct 1st 1845 President Brigham Young Beloved Broth & President in the Kingdom of gGod whom I love of a truth for the truth sake that dwelleth in you I seat myself once more in this life to make an address to you with pen & ink I have now lying Before me three letters from you of Dates Feb 11 by A Fielding June 27th & lastly Aug 21st All of which I feel thankful for all these favors for you may rest ...

ownly do by his servant Brigham Young as he did by Joshua of old after the death of Moses But that he would do as much better by him as the work greatness labour & work of this dispensation required [Joshua 1:1-9] I have also reunited all the Twelve & Elders in all the world I thank you for for all the information & scholing ^instruction^ you have given me & of so often speaking ^of^ our ownly son in Zion. We ...

hold our own untill some help comes from Nauvoo But the company of some Elders from there as soon as they get their Endowment will mett with a welcome reception in this land. And now while I think of it I have two request to make of president Young the first is that He will particularly instruct all Elders who come to this land to first see me before they go into the viyneyard ^field^ & harken to my council & cooperate with me in all things in the vineyard ...

Skins of their teath if an Elder should be caught with 200 letters about his person or in his trunk Nothing could save him Neither we nor himself could pay the fine inprisonment or transportation would be ther sent besids ruining us for if they knew this they was done by one of our society their vengence would he heaped upon our heads I have made this or similar statement in several letter to Nauvoo but it seems to have no affect but I pray this may suffice. All Elders should put all letters into ...

will give heed, if it cost me my life the ^kings Lords Rulers &^ rich among the gentiles shall never have it to say that in the day of Judgement that they were hindered from having an invitation to the great feast & marriage supper of the Lamb because Wilford Woodruff was afraid of his life No God forbid. I had rather go to the scaffold or gullentine My voice is lett the kings & princes hear the word of the Lord & the solum proclamation of the Twelve Apostles of the Lamb, whether they will hear ...

Please read the remainder of this communication to thyself President Young I consider that a sens of duty requires me to lay before you certain things which have been a source of much greif & sorrow to me since my arival in England. sSome of the reasons why I have not before opened my mind to you upon the subject has been that I have not wished to trouble your mind with any thing that I could get along without, & it has been much against my will to find fault with my Brother ...

I soon saw evry exhertion was making to prejudice my mind against Br Clark the spirit against him was of such a Nature that I saw he could never work with Br Hedlock in fact the accusations against him was of such a Nature & urged so [warningly] I was obliged to make it almost my first business to trace up the the accusations against him to the fountain head through all its windings it appeared to me to be like great groanings among the mountains to to bring forth a ...

8 page his own way without consulting me scarcly in anything unless I draged it out of him, & knowing it was my place & Duty to understand what was going on I enquired into matters untill in several instances he insulted me in the office & manifested much anger in the midst of considerable company & as I would not quarrel with him at least in company I quit the room, when he got mad he would say how much the Twelve were lying up over his labours & he out to have his share of it as ...

9th He would sooner walk away from me thatn to acquiant me with what he was doing. We have rented a New respectable office for three years he has rented it in his own name He is also renting a part of it in his own name. In fact he does all business in his own name without any regard to me whatever as Funding Emigration Renting rooms & one would think from his actions that he was laying a foundation to speed generations to come upon his own Book in Liverpool He has been to much ...

10th & taken them into my own possession & the Temple was also. I gave Br ward to understand that I would my name to go as publisher of the Star so it has found a place thare since tI took a decided stand upon the subject they have yealded in a degree But I do not at the present time know the income & out go of the Emigration ^1845^ He attends to that, keeps his own Books He does not consult me upon the subject. if He answers upon the subject it is to some ...

11th Thomas Wilson remarked if that A man with them in the office if that was the case I was not needed in England their has been a spirit manifest here that they were afraid they would not get pay Enough for what they done taking all these things into consideration I do not think things will go right here untill Br Hedlock is called home & transfers the business over into my hands I shall then know what shape it is in but the way he is doing business ...

12th congenial spirit wandering to & fro so if all things have not been conducted as you would wish in evry respect since I came here I trust you will make some allowance for my cituation I want the Anointed of the Lord to remember me in their prayers that I may have power to fill my place & station & overcome evry obsticle And I am resolved to wage a warfare with both men & Devils in the name of Jesus Christ & by virtue of the Holy priesthood & the keys of the kingdom of ...

13 I think I have said Enough upon this subject I have let out what was in my heart & I feel a good deal Better Any council you have to give me I will abide by it according to the best of my ability. when men undertake to pull me down here they try to pull you down & when they pull you down they pull the kingdom of God down. But thank God they cant [curse] it. I know that God is with you & I know he is with me in this land & ...

I have perhaps it is due Elders Hedlock & Ward to say that in the midst of all our affairs their has been no spirit manifest by them that they wanted to appostitize & leave the work, but to keep what power & influence they have & get more if they could even if it was at my expens they had been appointed Agents & presidents over the could Church & they could not get it into their heads that their presidency seased when I came I have written a letter to you about ...

immediately on his arival & take the money could he not be among the first to get his Endowment & come over get his money & labour awhile in the vineyard if he could be spared out of Zion If he cannot stop to fill a mission he had better come & hget his money if he returns immediately home I should judge their were some thousands of pounds if I could judge from what is said Elder Taylor Dear Sir I received the remainder [sideways text] Lengthy Epistle to Prest Brigham ...