I have Wrote a few lines to Elder pratt which you will please
hand him as I suppose he will continue his business with the Star &c. I have not herd a world from Herefordshire sin[c]e I
have been in London though I have written a number
of letters there if you get any information from that
region please communicate it to me. I wish to be
remembered to Elders Young & Kimball & afs oft as you
get any American News please let me know. Elder Hedlock went to Ireland preached in BelfastSagw Saw Eldr Curtis returned to GlasgowPaisley &c found 30 or 40 with
the gift of tongues & some the interpeptations says about 40 were
added to the church in that region, the work is doing well in
the potteries & Birmingham as far as I can learn. As it is
about meeting time I will lay down my pen & go to meeting
& I will tell you what for a time we have.
10 oclock P.M. Wel I have had a meeting & things appear more
prosperous to night. I will tell you how it has been here
this is the second Sabbath we have had a meeting in the
Academy the first meeting there was about 40, second about
20, third about 10, fourth about 7, fifth about 30, sixth &
last which was this evening about 50. We have had more this
evening than any other meeting & a good deal of interest
manifest one man told me after meeting that if our
meeting was known in London we should have [crowded]
houses, but there is so much going of evry thing now &
nature that it almost wants a trumpet Blown from heaven
in order to call the people together here, but we are begining
to be known some here & we feel incourged give us
your prayers, that God may bless you & family is the prayer
of
Woodruff & Smith
I have Wrote a few lines to Elder pratt which you will please
hand him as I suppose he will continue his business with the
Star &c. I have not herd a world from Herefordshire since I
have been in London though I have written a number
of letters there if you get any information from that
region please communicate it to me. I wish to be
remembered to Elders Young & Kimball & as oft as you
get any American News please let me know. Elder
Hedlock went to Ireland preached in Belfast Saw Eldr
Curtis returned to GlasgowPaisley &c found 30 or 40 with
the gift of tongues & some the interpetations says about 40 were
added to the church in that region, the work is doing well in
the potteries & Birmingham as far as I can learn. As it is
about meeting time I will lay down my pen & go to meeting
& I will tell you what for a time we have.
10 oclock P.M. Wel I have had a meeting things appear more
prosperous to night. I will tell you how it has been here
this is the second Sabbath we have had a meeting in the
Academy the first meeting there was about 40, second about
20, third about 10, fourth about 7, fifth about 30, sixth &
last which was this evening about 50. We have had more this
evening than any other meeting & a good deal of interest
manifest one man told me after meeting that if our
meeting was known in London we should have crowded
houses, but there is so much going of evry thing now &
nature that it almost wants a trumpet Blown from heaven
in order to call the people together here, but we are begining
to be known some here & we feel incourged give us
your prayers, that God may bless you & family is the prayer
of
Woodruff & Smith
"Letter to Willard and Jennetta Richards Richards, 1 November 1840," p. 2, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed March 28, 2024, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/M8KP