Asahel Dec 2 [18]84 Answered Dec Dec 23 [18]84 Broadbottom Cheshire Eng Dear Father Dec 2, 84 I once more find a few minutes on my hands and I take pleasure in putting them to good use in addressing a few times to you though I have no particular news to impart. Your ever welcome letter of Oct. 23nd came duly to hand which was read with much interest. Would like very much to have ben at the party but then I am quite satisfied where I am for the present at any rate ...

any thing if I could see the fruits of my labors in return. But if there are many more converts made in this country it will have to be through some special effort of the Almight, for the country is being continualy flooded with misrepres- entation about us as a people. Anti Morm lecturers are doing their utmoast to poison the public mind and close halls and ears against us and this they have succeded in doing very effectualy, for the mere mention of Latter Day Saint or "Mormon" has about the same effect on them ...

intelligence that a Stockport girl who was being taken to Salt Lake against her will had ben rescued from the clutches of the horrible Mormons and placed under the protecting care of kind friends. Of course this report and & will go the round of the press and be gobbled up as a dainty morsel by those who love a lie, and will be the means of deceiving many an honest souls. It was quite a lengthy article and would be easily palmed of a credulous bublic [public] as the truth. They will ...

see a Mr Taylor an Oappostate to try and arrainge for the purchase of some old Stars which he has in his poss- ession but he asked sutch an exorb- itant price for them that I decided not to get them. He wants 24 shillings for the first three volums bound in one cover claiming this to be the cost price. Dont you think this too high? he also has some of the Seers and Times & Seasons Are they not very scarce at home? Elder Eddie Woolley is going to Turkey ...

5 I walked from Audley in Stafford- shire to Saltney in Wales three miles from Chester where I tarried for two nights under the hospitable roof of a Mr Hemmings not now a memeber of our church though he was formerly That was the longest Sabath days journey that I remember having taken. For some time I have had a longing desire to pay a visite to that rare old city of Chester with its many interesting historical asso- ciations and as my favorite mode of locomotion ...

6 forward some feet and looks as if it was about to tumble off, some- times it projects so far that it has to be supported by posts in the side- walk. "Soon this becomes a frequent and then a continuous arrangement; the posts are generaly of stone, forming an arcade, and you walk beneath them in the shade or out of the rain. Sometimes, instead of posts, a solid wall supports the house above. You observe, as would be likely in an old city, that the surface is irregular, that we are ascending a slight ...

brilliancy of the most modern art and taste. Turning, to make the contrast more striking, by looking at the windows and rude carvings of the houses opposite, we see a banister or handrail separates the side-walk from the carriage way, and are astonished in steping out to it, to find the street is some ten feet below us. We are evidently on the second floor of the houses. Finding steps leading down, we descend into the streets, and discover another tier of shops, on the roofs of which we have ben walking." The streets are ...

add to the attraction of the place as it is a town frequented by tourists far & near. A flagg walk extends along the top of the walls from which can be obtained splendid views of all the places of interest in the town Orriginaly the only entrances was four massive gates, one on either side and opening on the two princip- le streets which extend through the city interesecting ea[ch] other at wright angles. Was you ever in Chester? I wrote a letter to Bro Weber at the Co-op last Friday, which I would ...