James Silk Buckingham
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Part of Journal (January 1, 1840 – December 31, 1840)
Excerpt:our testimony & desires to be Baptized with all her heart. She conversed much about her fathers family & friends in America we spoke of our wives & children which we had been long seperated from. On our returne home we called upon Br Corner who we found unwell, with a bad cold, we also saw a female who had just been run over by an Omnibus who was badly wounded. distance of the day 8 we read in the London times an interesting account from the German Jews ...Dates:December 27, 1840 December 28, 1840 -
Part of Journal (January 1, 1840 – December 31, 1840)
Excerpt:& Publications J. S. Buckingham. I know of no man that has traveled more extensively, am ong all natiouns in the nineteenth centaury than Mr Buckingham his travels in Asia & esspecially in India have been Published through the United States & been read with much interest, & Mr Buckingham had just returned to London from a tour through the United States whare he had spent two years in visiting nearly evry city & town from Bangor to New orleans ... -
Part of Journal (January 1, 1841 – December 31, 1842)
Excerpt:soon sink they Did so, & I began to revive in the evening & spent a little more comfortable night February 22, 1841 ~ Monday 22 was much better & enabled to sit up, most of the day February 23, 1841 ~ Tuesday 23rd Arose in the morning refreshed by sleep s[t]ill felt weak in body wrot a few lines in my Journal with a feble hand, [FIGURE] Received 2 letters from E. Bromley & a Brother in the Potteries. Elder Snow wrote to Elder ...Dates:February 22, 1841 February 23, 1841 -
Part of Journal (January 1, 1841 – December 31, 1842)
Excerpt:gin shops in London during one week 142,000 men, 108,000 women & 18,000 children Total 268,000, which esstablishments are the resort of multitudes of wretched & emancipated beings & their is upwards of 5,000 of these houses in the city of London alone, which are licensed to sell intox icating liquors, "The actual cost of intoxicating liquors in England including their manufacture & the duties paid upon them is upwards of Fifty Millions Sterling annually. To this large sum may be added Fifty Millions more, arising from the effectt.["] It is ...Dates:January 6, 1841 -
Part of Letter to Phebe Whittemore Carter Woodruff, 13 January 1841
Excerpt:I dined with her state coachman, his wife made me a present for Mrs Woodruff. 12th I wrote a few lines to Phebe Br Kimballs letter. 16th I received an interesting letter from sister Eunice Woodruff. Phebe requests me to get my portrait taken. I have complyed with her request & taken my first sitting Dec 23rd by an Italian Artist of the first class By the name of Fillippo Pistrucci I formed an acquaintance with him by means ... -
Part of Letter to George A. Smith, 28 December 1840
Excerpt:not be alone in coming out & receiving our doctrin. But with regard to these things they are all in the hands of God. Doctor Copeland & his wife has just come in and & wishes us to go to a tea total Meeting which is expected to be the greatest Ever held in London As the celebrated James, Silk, Buckingham is to occupy the chair. So I will lay down my pen & go to meeting & in the morning I will tell you ... -
Part of Letter to George A. Smith, 28 December 1840
Excerpt: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