August 25, 1840 ~ Tuesday 25th [FIGURE] I wrote a letter to Elder Turley & enclosed our letter & sent them to him to convey them to America we directed them to Liverpool. we visited Mr George Boulton pin & needle hook & eye manufacturer we went to his shop & saw them make pins through evry process of it from the wire to the finish we attended a tea total meeting, at the Temperance Hall We engaged the hall for a public ...

& 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 ...

The following is from the London weekly Dispatch Sunday Jan 17th 1841 1st Upwards of 100 seaman connected with New Castle upon Tine perished in the storm of Novembem 2nd The American Presidents Message to Congress, a contrast drawn by the Editor between England and America which was interesting 3rd England without a parliament, Publicola 4th The Schooner Veritas burned & one man 5 The Royal Speech To be deliverd frome the Throne by her Majesty on the opening of Parliament ...

Death of the Prophet & Patriarch. Return of the Twelve to Nauvoo & their conferen[c]e with the Church & organization of the Church at Nauvoo & all the Churches throughout the U.S.A. the same as in England. My appointment to England & arival. Our care & labours over the churches in England The importance of building the Temple. Also of Printing the doctrins & covenants called upon all the Elders to help us in ...

January 26, 1841 ~ Tuesday 26th Jan 1841 [FIGURE] This is a great day in London as it is the opening of the house of Parliament I started in company with H. C. Kimball Doctor Copeland & wife, Br Crook & sisters Mary Conner & Ellen Belfour Redman & walked to Saint James Park, we arived in the park at 1 oclock & found the citizens of London imbodying by tens ...

December 18, 1843 ~ Monday 18th A short time since Br Daniel Avery and his son Philander Avery were both kidnaped by some Missourians & other mob men from Illinois & taken to Missouri and put in prision, one of the kidnapers a schoolmaster was taken with a warrent & brought to Nauvoo & had his trial this day before squair Johnson his name was Elliot he was bound over to county ...

LEAVES FROM MY JOURNAL tember, and these were the first baptisms performed by proper authority upon any of the islands of the sea (to my know- ledge) in this dispensation. Before we left Kirtland some of the leading apostates there had tried to discourage Brother Hale about going upon his mission, telling him he would never baptize any one, and he had better remain at home. When Captain Eames offered himself for baptism, I told Brother Hale to go and baptize him, and prove ...

ELDER PATTEN'S SPEECH. brethren were condemned; but were finally released by paying the expense of the mob court. There was one peculiar circumstance connected with this trial by a mob court, which was armed to the teeth. When the trial was through with, the people were not willing to permit more than one to speak. Warren Parish had said but few words, and they were not willing to let David Patten speak. But he, feeling the injustice of the court, and being filled with the power ...

THE DESERET NEWS. TRUTH AND LIBERTY. No. 22. FILLMORE CITY, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4, 1858. VOL. VIII. [Column 1] HISTORY OF WILFORD WOODRUFF. (FROM HIS OWN PEN.) -[CONTINUED.]- CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS. -[Written at Great Salt Lake City, February, 1858.]- VARIED and diverse are the lives and for- tunes of men; while the paths of some are strewn with flowers and ease from the cradle to the grave, with naught to disturb their peace; others are marked victims of ...

of the fox that went to a hen coop to cketch some chickens the owner had had put a cord from the platform to a Bell ove[r]head so as soon as the platform was tuched the bell would ring as soon as the fox jumped onto the platform the bell rung & away the fox run with all his might but on looking behind him he saw nothing so he went back to the coop & examined to see what the matter was He touched the cord with his foot & it rung but did ...