Stanley Buildings Bath Street Liverpool Aug 1st 1845 Elder J M. Grant Beloved Brother your highly interesting letter of July 13th came to hand yesterday by the steem ship also Nauvoo & New York papers, several letters from Boston & one from Father Woodruff! far in Connecticut & you may rest assured they all met a most welcome reception and the contents & spirit of your letter set our souls on fire. Elders Wilson, Ward, Hedlock, & M ...

& other parts of the world their has been a fire of late in Smyrna seven thousand Houses burned, and as to fires in America you know about them. & I should not think strange if Sword followed. Elder Phelps of Boston in his letter says As the great Mormon gun has exploded & been cut off from the church viz G. J. Adams that he is now cut off from the church lecturing against us & is coming to Boston this is no more than ...

their Endowment that can set foot on land at Liverpool to unite with me in the work in this Land & my prayer is that Elder Grant of philadelphia may be among the first that I can see after the Endowment. O how I should rejoice, much could be done in this land if we had a hundred such men. We have of late rented one of the most respectable Houses in Liverpool for th[r]ee years for our printing, Emigration, Joint Stock associ- ation &c. I hope Br Grant you will ...

England are doing Exceding well & preparing wreaths of laurel for their brows. I rejoice Exeedingly at the glorious News we get from the South Sea Islands. also the work is rolling on at South Australia we have letters of late from those they have built up a church & have sent to us for Books of all kinds. I am expecting to furnish a Bell & Clock for the Temple through the instrumentality of the Saints in this land the work is rolling on in wales Elder Jones is