July 3, 1840 ~ Friday

July 3^rd In Company with the Twelve I visited the
musiam at Manchester M England which was an interesting
sight to behold every kind of Beasts, Animals, fowles &
birds fish & evry creeping thing, serpents, & all things
that live on land or in the sea. Also evry kind of fruit
& minerals ores & Precious stones. we saw the greatest
Dimond in the world that has as yet ever been discov-
ered it was nearly the size of a goose egg, it cost
£122,000,000 one hundred & twenty & two million Lbs
stirling this was not the dimond itself but its represe
ntation in a Cristol stone. I also saw one Animal
16 feet high. After spending several hours in visiting
this place I then visited the printing Office of
W. R Thomas 61 Spring gardens I saw them print a
form of the Hymn Book printed by the Latter Day Saints
I dined at Br Rigby, 149 Oldham road

July 4, 1840 ~ Saturday

4^th of July I took an interesting walk with the
Brethren through the Zoologicall gardins near
Manchester when we returned to Manchester
I found Elders Kington & Browet at the Star
Office I spent the night at the Star Office 6 m

July 5, 1840 ~ Sunday

5^th Sunday I met with the Elders & Saints
& a large Congregation of the Citizens of Manchester
at the Joiners Hall for public worship, the Saints
have hired this hall it will seat an assembly of
about two thousand I preached in the fore
part of the day. In the afternoon I communed
with 4 or 500 Saints the whole Congregation
would number near 1000 Elders Hadlock, Kington,
Fielding, Cordon, & others testified to the Congregation
Elder Cordon preached in the evening to a large Congregation
several were baptized Spent the night with P P Pratt