some two hundred preachers of the various denominations
This field of labor embraced Herefordshire Glostershire & Worstershire and formed these Conferences Garway ^Garway^, Gadfield Elm & Frooms Hill, I was visited
by president ^young^ & Dr Richards, Brother Benbow furnished
us with £300, to print the first Book of Mormon
that we published in England and on the 20 day of May
1840 B Young, W Woodruff & W Richards held a council
on the top of MalvMalvern Hill, and there decided
that president Young go dirct ^direct^ to Manchester & publish
3000 copies of the Hymn Book, & 3000 copies
of the Book of Mormon this being the first of the
publishing of these Books in England. The power of God
rested upon us upon this Mission, the sick were
healed, Devils were cast out, the lame was made
to walk one notible case I will mention Mary Pitt who died in Nauvoo sister to Wm Pitt who
died in Salt Lake City she had not walked upon
her feet for eleven years we carr[i]ed her unto
the water where I baptized her. On the evening of
the 18 May 1840 at Br Kingtons house in Ledbury
"Autobiography Leaves from my Journal 1838-1840 Notes," p. 40, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed October 7, 2022, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/pYAN
