AUG 18^th 1840 [FIGURE] London
We took coach at Cheltenham ^9 AM^ & rode 40 miles through
a level country having quite the appearance of the
Illinois & Missouri prairies occupied altogether for
farming, we past three villages & thousands of acres
of wheat & barlyey fields in the midst of harvest part
of which was cut & part was standing, we past thro-
gh Oxfordshire & in about 8 miles of the Oxford
University the Largest & most noted univesrsity
in the world which consists of 20 colliges endowed
& five Halls not endowed at which place all Europe
ans finish their studies, before they consider thems
elves perfect schoollars we took the railroad we
saw vast herds of cattle sheep & deer &c, we passed
in sight of Stow & the wychwood forest containing
7,500 acres of timber in which thousands of cattle
feed it is also a noted place of resort for sportsman
to hunt Deer & hares &c. We arived at the farington
road station & took the cars afor London at 1 oclock PM
Passed through Relicks & had a plain view of old
ruins, & as we passed we also had a fair view of
the splended Winser Castle, after travling 70 miles
on the rail road we were landed at the city of
LONDON at 4 oclock, making 110 miles from
Cheltenham to London which we travled in 7 hours
& did not stop more than two minutes at any time
we rode to the centre of the city we then left the
coach & walked across London Bridge into the
Borough & called upon (Mrs W. Allgood 19 King street
Borough London, which is Mr Allgood's Address, she
is own[ly] sister to Elder Theadore Turley^s wife she
treated us with kindness gave us some refreshment
& then directed us to a publick house wheare I wrote
[FIGURE] a letter to my wife & spent the night at Kings Arms King stree Borough
I am now in the great city of London
the largest most pnoted & poupulous
commercial city in the world containing a
population of about (1500000) one million five
hundred thousand people. I am In company
with Elders H. C. Kimball & G. A. Smith. We are the
first Elders of the church of Latter Day Saint
that have ever walked the streets of London
O, London as I walk thy street & behold the mass
of human beings passing through thee & view
thy mighty pallaces, thy splended mansions, the

costly merchantdize wharewith thou art adorn
ed even as the capital of great Babylon, I am
ready to ask myself what am I & my Brethren
here for, & as the spirit answers to warn thee
of thine abominations & to exhort the[e] to repent of
thy wickedness & prepare for the day of thy visit
ation thy mourning thy calamity & thy wo. I am
ready to cry out Lord who is sufficient for
these things, O Mighty God of Jacob cloth us with
thy power. Let the power of the Priesthood rest
upon us & the spirit of our ministry & mission &
enable us to warn the inhadbitants of this city
in such a manner that our garments will be clean
of their Blood & that we may seek out the honest
in heart & the meek from among men & have many
souls as seals of our ministry

we spent the night at kings Arms, King street, Borough
London distance of the day 114 mile