5th [FIGURES] I received 32 letters & wrote two
in return one was from London on the Book
of Doctrins & Covenants. I wrote one to Scotland
The Liverpool Horserace called the Steeple
Chase was performed at 4 o'clock PM, four
miles from Liverpool their were over a
dozen riders who took a strait course over
all hedges, ditchers, fences, walls, holes, pools, rivers &c
one horse broke his leg, another his neck, & one
man, broke his back
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