Stanley Buildings Bath Street Liverpool
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 Holmes were
present in the office when I opened & read it and they all
much rejoiced in its contents. I shall publish most of it
in the next [Millenniel] Star for I know it will do the Saints good
generally to hear the News from America. I rejoice much at the
progress of the Temple and Nauvoo House & the spread of the work
in America. was glad to hear that p. p. pratt was again printing
and that the north was going up, & the south keeping not
back & that the East were bringing their tiths & offerings
into the storehouse of the Lord. The Neighbor spoke of two
Murders one in Nauvoo Hodges and Marshall in Carthage
by Deming the sheriff. The Herald spoke of the annexation
of Texas & probably war with Mexico & perhaps with
England on the Origon question. The Lord said he would plead
in the last days with all flesh with fire & sword. He has already
begin with fire floods Hail storms & whirlwinds in America
& 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 lecturing against us & is coming to Boston
from the church
this is no more than I expected as soon as the church seased
to uphold him in his iniquity that he would be an Enemy
A Rigdonite landed in Liverpool as a missionary
to this land but his stay in Liverpool was vary short
he said he could do no good so near head quarters has
gone to try in the Manchester conference
but the first attack
he made there he was informed by the presiding Elder they had
no business on hand at all for Sidny Rigdon or any body that
followed him. I think his stay in England will be quite
short. I understand he is going to try Ireland. phelps
states that Bennet & others of the party are coming over. we
are quite prepared for them. I have no fears of any of
them they will do but little in England we have published
1500 of O. Hyds address before the High priest quorum in
Nauvoo on Rigdonism which is a good thing to circulate
whil Rigdonism has anything to do. The churches throughout
this kingdom are quite well united considering the
Few labourers we have in the vyne vineyard from America
The Lord knows I shall rejoice to see the day when I can
strike hands with 50 or 100 good wise men who have got
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 make up your mind
to come to Liverpool as soon as you can get your Endowment
we have now but 7 or 8 American Elders in all to labor
away 10 or 12 thousand Saints so it keeps me quite busy
to answer a peak [pack] of letters each day that come to me for
council for one thing or another the work is on the increase
through the British dominons. If war will ownly keep
of[f] a few years we shall send many thousands of Saints
to Zion. I have printed 3000 Books of Doctrines & Covenants
& secured the copywright of the same. Greenlow with the
Rigdon party laid a plot in pitsburgh to secretly
stere[o]type that work & come to London & Enter the work
& steal it out of our hands but the God of Heaven who
revealed secrets made this known to me in time put it &
leave the work before them which gives us the privleges of
printing it & sending it to two hundred Million of people in
England Scotland Ireland Wales canida all the East Indes
& all the world whare Brittania sweeps her scepter. I
was happy when it was done, Elder Miller says give my
best due to Elder Grant all our America Elder though
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 [weary]
among the welsh Mountans, & has printed his work in
the welsh language all is going on well on every hand what
few American Elders their are in this land are thinking
most of them of leaving for Nauvoo this fall & winter
& I will be left almost Entirely alone If I can
hold my own & keep the Churches whare they are untill I can
get help I shall do well. The Lord has been with me
on this Mission truly & poured out his spirit upon me
in preaching & council for which I feel thankful
about 10 days since the Lord Blessed us with a fine Noble
son which I Blessed on the 8th day & called his Joseph mother
& by doing well we all send our respects to you & sister
Grant & all the philadelphia saints I rejoice in the spirit of
these saints that God may bless you all with evry thing
you all need both temporally and spiritually is the prayer
of your brother in the Kingdom of God
Wilford Woodruff
P. S. I want to hear from ^you^ often