Asahel Feb 23 [18]85 wants Money Answered Mach 16 [18]85 received Letter Ju 21 sent £10 No 2 St Thomas St Winchester Hants. February 23 [18]85 Dear Father; I am very tired to night after a walk of eighteen miles. I thought I would start a letter to you to night and finish it in the morning all being well. Elder Denney and myself left Southhampton this morning and walked to Ramsey and called at the residence of a Mrs Stone ...

final results will be time alone can tell. Had we have seen Mrs Stone so as to spend the afternoon at her place we would have returned to Southhampton to night, but as things turned out we determined to wend our way to this place and arrived here at 8 oclock and proceded to Bro Elkins. He has a wife and seven children; they are one of those sort of families that have one leg in the church and one leg outside. And I want to tell you here that Bro

months nor before that time that he knew of; well when we got inside I was so tiered and hungry having had no dinner and the heavy road had given me a ravenous appetite, that I just asked the Lord to provide us with something to eat, and it was soon made manif- est that He had heard my simple prayer for the good matron was soon buisy prepareing us some supper, and just as we had finished our frugal meal, another sister came in with a nice pc. of cake which ...

4 Elders to gave us two shillings with which to procure some comf- artable lodgings. We succeded in getting them with a private family where we are now comfortablely quarted. Bro D. has retired and is now snooring lustily, while I am clutching my pen- holder with a determined effort to deface this sheet of paper, and wait for the candle, which is growing beautifuly less, to give out so that I may have a good excuse to retire Of course I acknowledge the ha^n^d of the Lord in providing for our wants ...

5 our way here. The green hills and verdant meadows coverd with the fir and yew trees and a variety of evergreen shrubs together with the ivy coverd cottages that one frequently sees in passing through the rural districts in the South of England, gives every thing the appearance of Spring rather than of Winter; and were it not for the few varites of desciduous trees which abound in this region sutch as the oak, elm etc, it would be difficult to define the seasons. Well I mus say good night. Feb ...

6 sorry to know that you with others had ben forced to flee from your persecuters, leave your families and seek that protection among the Red Man that is denied you by the more civilized race. It seems hard that our fathers who went to Utah when it was a desolate wilderness and by their unceasing efforts redeemed the land from its sterrility and made the desert blossom as the rose are now involuntary fugitives, not from justice but from inquisitorial judges who would inc- arcerate them in the penitentary just as surly as they submitted ...

7 arrest, arrest is merely a proceding precedent to conviction, conviction is the penitentary, with treatment sutch as is given to vile fellons murders and cut-throats to be followed by forced associations with these characters. The procedings now being carried on in the territories reminds me of the day of Catholic ascendency in Spain, less the torture, but it is my deliberate belief that if it were possible even torture would be resorted to. One cannot contemplate sut^c^h unjust procedings without the blood of indig- nation rushing tumultously through his veins and along and through ...

8 one to look with fortitude upon the dissolution that is sure to follow any any nation that allows sutch a state of affairs to exist. I hope the Lord will bless you and comfort your heart on your present mission and may you have much joy in your labors. Bro Lund said he was going to change me to London early in the Spring but I am content to labor wherever I may be called for preaching is preaching and it dont make much difference what part of the country it is ...

9 we have ben stopping in S. ampton has gone into the poorhouse, so we have had to hire a little room and get a bit of a bed together so as to have a shelter when we go there. It is not a very luxurous couch concisting as it does of an old straw tick to lie on and a few bits of. well they may have ben blankets once, for a covering, still it serves as a shelter. We have but two places now where we can sleep without paying for it, and ...

10 shabby and I must get some new ones. When I have paid for the clothing that I require immediately there will be but a few cappers left in my pocket and I would like some means sent me as soon as poosible. I have deprived myself of nearly all pleasures and some of the nescessaries of life, at times going hungry rather than buy food, and I always purchase the plainest, generaly bread and butter. But I am quite cont- ented to live this way if it is nescess- ary that I should ...