the form of cloth, chains & sundry articles were formed out of china. After spending the day we met in council with the officers in the evening & we had a good time. I spent the night with Br Martin 8 miles July 6, 1845 ~ Sunday 6th Sunday I met with the Saints in the Poteries for the first time since 1841 I Preached in the morning communed in the afternoon & I preached in the evening on the death of the prophets had a ...

April 10, 1845 ~ Thursday April 10th I spent the day in company with the American Elders with whom I had been sitting in conference with. I enjoyed myself well with them although I was fatiegued with the labours of the conference. April 11, 1845 ~ Friday 11th I went through A Manchester Cotten Factory with some of the Saints April 12, 1845 ~ Saturday 12th In company with Elders Holmes, Davis ...

We hear from you occasionally & little Willy by the letters of our friends in Nauvoo We should be glad to get a letter from you & hope you will answer this & inform us if you received the Bondle we sent by Elder Carns last spring & also if you recieve the things we send by this ship the [Linning] for your self & the cloths for willy & give me ^us^ all the News with you & you will much oblige us. We thought you ...

waggon whare she lay vary sick Br and Sister Benbow had been with us several days. Sister Benbow was exceding low when she came. Hardly expected she would live Mrs Woodruff used evry exhertion to nurs her up that she might recover November 5, 1846 ~ Thursday 5th I this day walked to the tent alone with the aid of a staff. Joseph is a failing is dangerously sick November 6, 1846 ~ Friday 6th ...

the mountains & of unburnt brick surrounding 10 acres of ground, 40 rods of which was covered with block houses. Besides planting about 100 acres of corn, potatoes, buckwheat turnips gardens &c the pioneers did not exceed 150 men during the time 140 of the Battalion arived I think there was not over 100 men labouring on the works at a time besides much exploring was done and after accomplishing this work the company return to winter Quarters the place of begining making nearly 2,500 miles traveling during one ...

this Bill of Wm Claytons was sent by his express order out of the Temple founds & he would pay it in Nauvoo the three before mentioned packages was sent by James Houston going direct to Nauvoo on Board of the Ship Oregon we also sent cloth by Br John Armstrong to make a suit of clothes for Wilford Woodruff jr at Br Benbows he was to make the cloths himself the Bill ...

the Hillander My Partner and myself have had A walk in New Orleans and I must Say that it is Ceartainly A Place of Business and all life hurrie and bustle but the Working People Look more conten[ted] than in England, and apear more Respectable and free Just as if One Master was too much the Tyrant they could Soon get annother the People in New Orleans are A Sallow complexion sort of People ^and unhealty^ sort of People or as if they wer treubled with A continuance of ill health. I ...