Letter to Levi Richards, 28 January 1841
London,
Elder Levi Richards.
Beloved Brother and fellow laborer in the vine-
yard of the Lord. It is with pleasure that I appropriate a few momen-
ts in conversing with you with my pen. I have just received a letter
from Brother Edward Oakey who makes mention of your wishing a few lin-
es from me. I feel to cheerfully comply with your request; in fine I
esteem it a favor to correspond with my old friends and acquiantences;
and as I think of you it brings to mind scenes and days that are past
and gone some of which we spent in the town of Kirtland. It is true
our acquaintence has been somewhat limited; but this is no reason why
we should not become better acquianted.
I ^have^ spent many a goodly season with Brother W. Richards since I have
been in England; but more especially in ^that^ part of the vineyard where you
now are; and I never have enjoyed greater blessings in any part of my
labors in the vineyard of the Lord than in Herefordshire and surround-
ing country. And as your lot is now cast for a season in the same tra-
ct, I pray and trust that health, peace and all blessings of God may
rest upon you; that you may find friends that will administer unto yo-
ur necessities in every time of need. The Lord has truly done a marve-
llous work in that region of country during the past summer and thr-
oughout the land whereby our hearts have been made glad. And I fully
realize it hath been by the power of God and not of man.
I much desire to once more visit the Saints in Herefordshire and th-
roughout th^at^ region which I expect to do in the month of March, if
