Stanley Buildings Bath St Liverpool
Dear Brother Woodruff
your Welcom Letter of March 2nd & 7th
came Duly to Hand and I am glad to hear that you
are safe Landed in N. York after so perilous a Voige
and hope these Lines will find you well as they Leave
me at pressent and all in the office. I am thankfull
to learn by your letter that the twelve are safe from
the hand of their persecutors and hope when they get
Beyond the Bounds of time and space or in other
words when they find a Resting place in the wilderness
that they may have Rest from their Enemes and
be enabled to fulfill their High calling in the
Kindgom of God unmolested, you ask me to
write to you all particulors Respecting affairs in
Briten and to comply with your Request I scarcley
know where to Begin, but will Begin at what I
consider of importance first as to the church in Briten
I would say that it is in full as healthy state as when
you Left and some conferences are improving verry
much for instance Malesfield is in peace and guiet
ness for the first time since it was a conference and
Dayley increesseng which may Be said of all the
conferences I have had to atend is spessial conference in
Birmingham and the Result is father Crook is
is suspended from office untill Next General conference
for several changes such as making to free with another
mans wife which was fuly proved against him by
Her ouwn testimony and others togeather with His own
confession. He said that while travling among the
Branches he Had often Layed down to Rest him
in the Bretherens Hauses and falen assleep and when
the awoke found the sister cudleing him to keep him
warm the council testified as to the course of
tyriny used by him in the church and are now
Rejocing that they are freed from the yoke and
are on the increesse I Do not know what
we are to Do for men to perside over the conferences
and hope some assistance will come from home
I got a Letter from Br Davis in London and learn
by it that he has Been cuteing off a number and
also Baptising many more the conference is in
a good condition at pressent Brothr Don Jones
is Doing well in Wales we held a Spessial conference
there to settle the Diffaculty arrising from the
Jelousey of Brothr Henshaw Respecting Brother
Joneses presidency which Resutled in the suspension
of Elder Henshaw from the presidency of Mythertydvill
Hundreds of the Welsh are Joining the church and
the prospects of Sucess of the cause of truth in
Wales is good, your old Naibours Halewood &
Holoway are Bothe cut off from the church and are
our greatest Enemies they Have many tales to tell
about you and Sister Woodruff, they Have Done their
Best to poisen the minds of the saints against us and
the twelve But their Race is Nearly Run the Liverpool
conference Remains in about the same state as when
you left, the Diffacultys in the Isle of Man has Resulted
in cuting of Brother Mancecsster and Sister Mairs
they are auer great opposers many have come into
the church in the Island since the triming up of
the church Brother Banks Has Left Edinburgh
and is in Liverpool the church in Edinburgh is in Rather
an unsetled State the glasgow conference has suffered
from an asspering [aspiring] spirit of some of the officers to take
Brother peter Mccues place But it is all setled and
peace and union again Exists in the Glasgow
conference, we have put of the general conference until
the Last Sabath in may hoping some one from Nauvoo
would Be with us or that we might have some
instructions from the twelve Relation to the gathering
of the saints to California and affairs of the church
in Briten in general and also to Be able to say Before
the church the compleet Regestration of the Joint
Stock Company. We have sent to London to Day
all the Recqusit Doctuments for the compleet Registraton
of the company and we shall no Daut Be compplety
Registored Next week there is now about
five thousand shares taken and the saints are
Becoming alive to it and I am of oppinion that
when we are compleetly Registered that we shall have
ten thousand pounds [subsirded] and a great
portion paid in in the course of three months from
this Date I have Just Reiceed a Letter from Br
Russell of Merenichie saying that He is now
Building a ship of 600 tons Registar and will
send her to Liverpool in June and will take
about one thousand shares in the company and
sell the ship to them we are intending unless
otherwise Directed By the twelve at the General
Conference to form a company ^of Emigrants^ to go to Callifornia
to Leave here about the 10th of Sept also to Lend a
cargoe of such Articals as will Be usefull for the
Saints to commence a settelement in a New Country
and to Return the produts of that country to this
we expect to purchas the ship of Br Russell for the
purpos if there is Emigrants suficient ^we will^ will send
two ships in Sept. We should Be glad of any
council upon the subject that you have to commuicate
and will abide by it as to the affairs you Left for
me to setle I wish to say that you had not sailed
Before some that Loaned many to you called
upon me for it the printer & Binder pressed me
very hard I have paid them all and glad am
I, the great Exortion to Rais money on Books and
to pay up the old Bills has caused Ever since almost
an Entier stopage in paying for Book so much so
that I have not Received ten pounds on Books since
you Left I have Been very sorry that I stoped
in England for since you Left I have had more to
Bare up under than I have felt able to Do your
Remarks Respecting Brother Wilson Aare true he only
cares for his weeks wages after you Left I thought it
wisdom to Regulate the affairs of the office and
allow Each one so much for his servissess the Reason
was there was so much grumbling that they had not
Recieved a sufficient Remuneration for their services. Brother
Ward was not willing that I should have any portion
of the star and Brought his old friend James to
help him to carry his points and He Requairs one
pound a week Besides for his servisses and in the
office Brother Banks and family I have to suport
from the office and if the Lord had not given
me favor in the Eyes of the world I know not where
the mony would have come from to carried me
thus far but I am glad to inform you that I have
Heped since you Left about 900 Emigrants
and only about ten saints in the Number. I chartered
a ship to New York and one to New Orleans and which sailed
one on the 5 & the other on the 9th of April on
the ship to New Orleans I had I had 220 souls
and on the one to New York 296 sols soe you see
that we can ship other people as well as saints and
we can use their money to assist to Rate on the
work of God I have now Laying in the Docks three
ships one for New Orleans & one for New York and the
for Quebec on which I Expect to send about 600
passengers. I have established about 15 good gents in
Ireland and have Recie[ve]d many passenger from them
and although our Business is in its infancy it Bids
fair to become great when the Joint Stock Company
comes into apperration and with the Blessings of
God we shall be able to own ships and convoy home
the poor Saints to Zion and Reere a Kingdom to his
Honor & glory and were it not the satisfaction that
I am laboring in so great a cause I could not Enduer
to Be absent from my family and the scociety my
Breatheren and I Long for the Day when I shall
again Behold their faces in peace and I hope to
meet you in Callifornia when I can unbosom my
me feelings but at pressent circumstance as I am
I have no one to whoom I can communiate my
feelings knowing that all men are so changable
and if they knew all things they might use them
to my Hurt and an injury of the cause of God
Since your statement in the Star I have heard of several Branches
who say that they Have given money and it is not mentioned
and I am not able to give them the Reasons why
the some mentioned in the Star given to Elder clark has called
forthe one Inquiry into what was given in the Staffordshire
conference which they say was € 6.00 besides a suit of cloths
and I am ignorent as to the truth of the statement and not
knowing what Elder Clark Did Receive there I mention this that
when you write you can say the amount
you will see by the amount of temple mony
sent by Brother fielding that I am a Little short but
the Reason was the pressure upon me after you left
for the mony Borroed on Books But I have Received
a Little since about € 10, in all and I will Remit
it the first oportunity or Lay it out to order and send the
articals to Callifornia which Ever is Desiered
I shall keep an account of all and when I
see the twelve or the person who succeds me
I will account with them for all
my helth is not so good awing to Excess of
Labor but Hope these Lines will find you and
all the Saints well.
wPlease call and see my people and Request
them to write for I have not Recived a Letter
from them for more than a year
I shall Leave all and come home unless
I can hear from my folks for I am weary of
Being a Lone
please Remember me to all friends
I Remain as Ever yours truly
April 18th 1846
I Just open my Letter to say that Brother
David C Kimball has just arived and I am truly
glad to see one from home
R.H.