7 Macclesfield St South, City Road, London. March 27th 1846 Ansd May 24/46 Dear Brother Woodruff I have delayed writing to you as late as possible so that I might have the latest news for you before you start; I hope you are well. I am happy to say I enjoy excellent health; I am still in the great City; I have been delivering a course of lectures this winter; we had 5,000 hand bills circulated, and the meetings are well attended by ...

I have also been triming up the tree in London. we have cut off two or three dozen dead snags, & are not quite done yet. We ^have^ already seen the good effects of the triming. the Church is more united, & strangers flock to hear, & listen without being anoyed by bad mem- bers. I expect to go to Birmingham for a short time; Father Crook has got him self into difficulty, with the gin, and the women; the two greatest snares ...

moment some 60 or 70 ships of war around the coasts of America, besides a navy of sevel hundred mighty ships of war; many of them steamers, together with a powerfull & well trained army well supplied with the seeds of death. The americans may flatter themselves & say "they tried us twice, & failed" when Jonathin was only only a boy, but now he is a man, but it must be remembered that at that time England was at war with France and ...

The English army in India have defeated the Sykes in two pitched battles, 9,000 Sykes & 4000 N English fell in one battle the particulars of the other we have not yet recieved, but the English was victorious, and when the news reached London, votes of thanks were taken in parliament, and the cannon roared from the tower. They are now sending soldiers & artilery to Canada, & calling ship carpenters into the Dock yards to finish their war ships as ...

Now Brother Woodruff I will say a few words about my own affairs. Things are about as they were when you left. My dear Mary Ann is well & as happy as could be expected in such a hell as she is in, Sister St John is also well & appears cheerfull, the two old gentiles are about as usual. Mary Ann's treatment shas been shocking I wrote B a short letter, & since there has ^been^ a change for the better, I told him plainly that I ...

The Saints seem anxious to swell the capitol of the Joint stock company. Brother Hedlock informs me that a Brother Russell of New Brunswick will have a new ship of 650 tons burthen ready for sea by next october, & he will take near half the value of it in stock. So you see the Lord works when we work, & who can hinder, yester day I had a letter from Capt Jones of Wales he ...

Please shew this to Brothers Stratton & Sheets, for I design it for all of you but I hope to have a letter from each of you if you can possibly get time; I hope you will remember also my poor old Father and Mother & speak comfortably to them. do for my sake whether a word of comfort to th[em] Please remember my love to Bothers Young Kimball, Hyde, & all the Twelve ...

Since I finished writing to you & had this letter doubled ready to seal I recieved a beautifull letter from Br Wm. W. Mcguire of Nauvoo formerly from Pennsylvania, it was written in July 1845 and is a treat to my soul. Brs Stratton, or Sheets, will you please see him & give him & all my Lancaster and Chester County friends my very kind love Tell Brother Mcguire & all of them to go ahead to California & I shall meet them there. [upside-down text] Brother Stratton ...