Letter to Phebe Whittemore Carter Woodruff, 8 April 1841
Manchester England
My Dear Phebe
I sit down in Haste to drop a few lines
to you as several weeks have past since I last wrote
I am as usual in good health & spirits, I was
suddenly attacked with sickness a few days before I left London
was confined to my bed about 3 days it was supposed by my
Friends to be the small pox as I had been much exposed to
it in all stages by visiting the sick, who had it but, it proved other-
wise, & I was soon restored. I left London the last of
Feb, & spent the Month of March in visting Bristol, Wales, –
Monmouthshire, Worcestershire, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire Staffordshire
& various other places I attended several conferences in these
places, set in order the churches, visited all my old friends
in Herefordshire & surrounding country, the Herefordshire –
churches including all the branches in my old field of labour
now No 1550 members 40 Elders, 106 priest, 42 Teache[r]s, & 10 Deacons,
these have all recieved the work in one year besids 100
emigrated in that one field. I also attended a conference
in Staffordshire with Elder G. A. Smith herd 684 members
represented I arived in Manchester the 1st of April & I have spent
a week in company with nine ^9^ of the quorum of the Twelve
& we have truly had an interesting time. We held our
general conference on the 6th their were present 9 of the
Twelve, 2 Patriarchs, 16 High priest, 2 of the Seventy, 31 Elders,
28 priest, 17 Teachers, & a large congregations of Saints
