History draft; handwriting of and ; docket in handwriting of Robert L. Campbell; 27 pages; CHL. This manuscript covers the period from 1 January 1843 to 3 March 1843.
<7> Saturday 7th At 8½ A.M. We left for a return to . And arrived at at 4 P.M. Travelling very bad. with snow and mud, & yet so cold as to whiten the horses with frost. while riding this day & composed a <Jubilee> song which they wrote & sung in the evening, & “Dedictd [Dedicated] to all Lovers of Libities [Liberties],” as printed on the first page of the 37th No— of “The Wasp.”
Recent accounts from Alexandria in Egypt, state the Murrain Mortality -[Murrain]- among cattle still continued, & it was calculated that upwards of 200,000 oxen had already died.
<8> Sunday 8th at 8. A.M. We left es. & passing through & Beardtown, <&> crossing the on the ice, arrived at at 4 P.M. After supper I went to Mr ’s, with several of the brethren and spent the evening very agreeably. partly in listening to <examining models drafts of> improvements he had made in some operative & defensive <machinery.>
<9> Monday 9th. At 8½ A.M. Started for ; roads very hard & smoothy & icy. When about 2 miles west of , <at 12½ P.M.> the<horses of the Lar> Large carriage , bolted slipped. & became unmanageable, & horses & carriage, with & in it, wind went off the embankment, some 6 or 8 feet— perpendicular, doing no damage except breaking the top of the <fore axeltre[e]> cariage <and top off the carriage.> It was a remarkable interposition of providence that neither of the brethren were injured in the least. The company agreed that should pay the damage, cut down a small tree, spliced the axle drove on and arrived at s in about 4 P.M. After Supper I visited my Sister , accompanied by & . This was the first time I had visited her in the State of , and the circumstance brought vividly to my mind many things pertaining to my s’ home, of which I spake freely. And particularly of my brother . He was a very handsome man, surpassed by none but Adam & Seth, and of great strength. When two irishmen were fighting, and one was about to gouge the others eyes; took took him by his collar & breeches & threw him over the ring, which was composed of men standing around to witness the fight. — (“While there” said “my heart was pained to see a sister of Joseph’s almost barefoot, & four lovely children entirely so, in the middle of a severe winter. What has not Joseph & his ’s family suffered to bring fourth the work of the Lord in these last Days.”[)] [p. 7]