August 11, 1840 ~ Tuesday

[FIGURE] Aug 11^th {Elder Benbow loaned Elder Turley} 20 {pounds and gave me} 15 {for our London mission}
We took the parting hand with Elder Turley who
Started for Liverpool to prepare a ship for about 80
Saints to emegrate to America 40 of which Elder J
Benbow takes with him & pays their expenses to
America out of Mercy to the poor Saints Let the
Blessings of Almighty God rest upon him forever &
ever He Gave Elder Turley £100 to secure the
Passage of the Saints. We took the parting hand with
Brother & Sister Benbow & the Saints at Froms
Hill to see them No more untill I meet them in
NAUVOO U.S.A. Aa they are about to emegrat
there, we walked to Ledbury, & spent the night
[FIGURE] I wrote a letter to B Young & one to Elder Glover 7

August 12, 1840 ~ Wednesday

12^th We walked to Dymock & found Elder Kimball
at Elder Kingtons he had come from Manchester
to meet Elder Smith & myself for the purpose
of Going to the city of London. Elder Kimball had
two letters direct from America one from his
wife & the other from father John Smith to
his Son George A. Smith. Sister Kimball informs
us of the Death of Bishop EDWARD PATRIDGE
who DIED May 27^th 1840 & his oldest Daughter Died
the week before The Loss of Bishop Patridge will be greatly
felt by the Church he is one of the wisest & best men
of the Last Days. he was like Nathaniel of old in whom
there is no guile, [John 1:47] he has passed through much Persecuti-
on for the word of God & the testimony of Jesus Christ in
1833 he was Imprisioned & besmeared with tar & feathers
in 1839 he was again Imprisioned & passed through the
great Persecution of that year & he has been a member
& Bishop of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
almost from the Beginning. But he has now gone to
rest & to receive his Crown of Glory

[FIGURE] Father John Smith Informed us in his letter of some
remarkable Signs that lately appeared among the Saints
viz on the 14^th of June 1840 on Sunday five {persons}
men members of the Church saw two men ride across the
Missisippi from Commerce ^river^ Missisippi River from Montrose
to Nauvoo one man was on a white horse & the other on
a bay or red horse the waters parted under their feet
& fire flew when their tails moved & they observed the
clothing of the men. A few month previous to this a man
was seen walking across the river by several believers &
others the Unbeleivers said Probably a mormon was

August 11, 1840 ~ Tuesday

[FIGURE] Aug 11th {Elder Benbow loaned Elder Turley} 20 {pounds and gave me} 15 {for our London mission} We took the parting hand with Elder Turley who Started for Liverpool to prepare a ship for about 80 Saints to emegrate to America 40 of which Elder J Benbow takes with him & pays their expenses to America out of Mercy to the poor Saints Let the Blessings of Almighty God rest upon him forever & ever He Gave Elder Turley £100 to secure the Passage of the Saints. We took the parting hand with Brother & Sister Benbow & the Saints at Froms Hill to see them No more untill I meet them in NAUVOO U.S.A. Aa they are about to emegrat there, we walked to Ledbury, & spent the night [FIGURE] I wrote a letter to B Young & one to Elder Glover 7

August 12, 1840 ~ Wednesday

12th We walked to Dymock & found Elder Kimball at Elder Kingtons he had come from Manchester to meet Elder Smith & myself for the purpose of Going to the city of London. Elder Kimball had two letters direct from America one from his wife & the other from father John Smith to his Son George A. Smith. Sister Kimball informs us of the Death of Bishop EDWARD PATRIDGE who DIED May 27th 1840 & his oldest Daughter Died the week before The Loss of Bishop Patridge will be greatly felt by the Church he is one of the wisest & best men of the Last Days. he was like Nathaniel of old in whom there is no guile, he has passed through much Persecution for the word of God & the testimony of Jesus Christ in 1833 he was Imprisioned & besmeared with tar & feathers in 1839 he was again Imprisioned & passed through the great Persecution of that year & he has been a member & Bishop of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints almost from the Beginning. But he has now gone to rest & to receive his Crown of Glory

[FIGURE] Father John Smith Informed us in his letter of some remarkable Signs that lately appeared among the Saints viz on the 14th of June 1840 on Sunday five {persons} men members of the Church saw two men ride across the river Missisippi River from Montrose to Nauvoo one man was on a white horse & the other on a bay or red horse the waters parted under their feet & fire flew when their tails moved & they observed the clothing of the men. A few month previous to this a man was seen walking across the river by several believers & others the Unbeleivers said Probably a mormon was