in the midst of one universal dens mass [o]f brick & Stone buildings, covering about six miles squair of ground while viewing this scenery in a clear day we were conversing with a Prussian traveller (citizen of Berlin) who had travled much over Europe & Asia & other parts of the world, & he declaired we could not find another spot upon the face of the earth that would present to our view as grand a scenery as the one before us. This monument was 24 feet higher ...

November 28, 1842 ~ Monday to November 30, 1842 ~ Wednesday 28th, 29, 30, Spent the time in the printing Office & running about town to get a team ready to go to St Louis for paper we had another severe snow storm on the 29th on the 30th a team & man came to the printing office to go to St Louis but Wm W Phelps who was going was sick & postpond it untill the day following December 1 ...

a dozen different languages Arabic &c &c who is preparing to go to Asia to Preach the gospel soon. Elder Levi Richards & wife arived in England safe. I feel thankful to my heavenly Father I recieve in the foregoing letters and for his blessings to his saints and his wonderful works among the children of men I also recieved Ny York Weekly Herald, which contained a copy of the Calafornia land Bill also the following before the House of Congress ...

September 12, 1852 ~ Sunday [FIGURE] Sept 12th Sunday 12th O Pratt Preached the Funeral serm[on] of Lorenzo D. Barnes & Wm Burton who had died in England & were buried there but their bodies were taken up & brought to the vally of the great Salt Lake & buried with dead Saints in this place. The follow is a synopsis of the discours [FIGURES] L.D.B W.B. Elder Orson Pratt arose & said the subject before ...

Dear Parents, I hope you nor none of my friends will think me assuming while addressing you upon spiritual Subjects I have but one motive in view & that to clean my garments of all whether they be Parents Brethren Sisters Neighbours Priest or People Kings or rullers whareever my My Master calls. My motive is ^to^ act for the best good of all my fellowmen. But O how changed the scene a few months since my mind was flushed with the idea of accumilateing something of this worlds goods that I might enjoy the society ...

Elder Kimball & I sat in front of him & he was informed by the tea totalers in the Borough that we were Americans & he eyed us closly while speaking, & the man then followed him spoke of our speaches in the Borough this Buckingham is the same man that has traveled so much all over the world, his travels th[r]ough Asia & India are B^p^ublished in America I read them many years ago & was much [page cut] he has Been all over

his dominions, untill he has in many intstances been under necessity of yielding to the wishes of the people untill his Throne has been in danger. The Irish have made A struggle to throw off the British Yokke Yoke, but they have failed in it. Yet their is trouble brewing for the British Goverment. The Roman Empire have risen up in their strength, And compelled the Pope to make change after change, And at last have dashed his power to the Earth, Assassin- ated his counsellors, And driven him from his Papal seat & ...

The Equitable Trust Company of Omaha. OFFICERS: LEWIS S. REED, PRESIDENT. JAMES W. SAVAGE, VICE-PRESIDENT. C. B. SCHMIDT, SECRETARY. H. W. YATES, TREASURER. SAVAGE, MORRIS & DAVIS, COUNSEL. DIRECTORS: A. E. TOUZALIN, BOSTON. I. T. BURR, [BOSTON] LEWIS S. REED, OMAHA. H. W. YATES, [OMAHA] JAMES W. SAVAGE, [OMAHA] C. B. SCHMIDT, [OMAHA] JNO. A. HORBACH, [OMAHA] Omaha, Neb. March 7 1890. Hon. Wilford Woodruff, President Salt Lake City, Utah Ter. Dear Sir, ...

in the service of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe R. R. Comp. whose Commissioner of Immigration I have been for 13 years, up to the summer of 1885. Dr. Siemens is familiar with the great work done by the Mormon people in Utah, and is of the opinion, that like results, if not greater, could be accomplished in Asia Minor, under a more tolerant and more sympathetic government. The lands lying contiguous to the Anatolian Railway are chiefly under personal control of the Sultan, and the railway ...

MISSION OF THE TWELVE BY P. P. PRATT Let Europe's towns and cities hear The gospel tidings angels bring The Gentiles nation far and naear Prepare their hearts His praise to sing India's and Afric's sultry plains Must hear the tidings as they roll Where darkness death and sorrow reigns And tyrany has long controlled Listen ye islands of the sea For every isle shall hear the sound Nations and tongues before unknown Though long since lost shall soon be found And then again shall