Liverpool.

My cold some better.

Alice and I spent the day shopping. We spent about $150.00 these two days for linnen, watches &c to take home to the children. [page break]

Liverpool.

Alice and I have colds but they seem to be waning today. I spent most of the day at my desk answering correspondence.

Alice & I went downt to the Oculist Stone’s in Dale St. and got her glasses adjusted. We went from there by train to Calderstones Park, returning we walked through Wavertree park.

Lpool.

Alice & I still have colds.

We left home at 9:30 A.M. and took 10:50 train from Birkenhead, went to Holyhead thence by boat, “Connaught”, to Kingstown near Dublin. We were met by President B. R. Birchall & wife and taken to their home. “Drummany”, Stilorgan Park. Co. Dublin where we staid the two nights we were in Ireland.

Dublin.

I attended and spoke at the three conferences meetings.

Took dinner with Bro. & Sis. Baker. I set apart Wm H. Horlacher of 6, Tivoli Terrace East, Kingstown.

Elder Jos. S. Nelson was present and assisted us.

Dublin.

Alice and I left Kingstown pier on “Connaught” at 9 A.M. and landed at Holyhead at 12:30 P.M. 57 miles in 3½ hours. We stopped [page break] off at Chester for several hours. We walked all the way round on the wall of the City 1¼ miles. This is certainly an interesting City.

We got home at 8 P.M. and attended the farewell social tendered Elder J. M. Sjodahl. I spoke briefly.

Liverpool

We have some cold, both.

I had a busy day at my desk.

Liverpool.

I decided to go to London tomorrow, Alice accompanying me to secure if possible ammendments to our passports and to obtain permission to go to Holland and to Switzerland with a view to continuing on from London to these points, having been requested by the First Presidency to go to Holland, and see about the purchase of some property for mission headquarters.

I spent a busy day at my desk clearing it of important business &c.

Liverpool.

Alice & I both have colds but both are improving.

We took 11:00 A.M. train to London and were met at Euston Station at 3:57 P.M. by Pres. J. G. McKay & wife who accompanied us to the main police station where we registered in. [page break] We had to furnish photograph of ourselves but luckily I had som by me. We attended regular mid-week meeting. Announcement had been made that Elder McKay would give a lecture on “A Chosen People” so I occupied but about three to five minutes, though the whole time was offered me.

London.

Alice is not very well. <[illegible]>

I wrote several letters before breakfast and filled out a Missionary Certificate for Elder Arthur R. T. Phillipps and letter of appointment to Norwich, he having been set apart & ordained by me last evening after meeting.

This day President James Gunn McKay, my wife and I went down town and attended to business as follows; We went to the American Embassy and obtained ammendments to hers and my passports so as to include Holland, Belgium, France and Switzerland. We then went to the American Consulate and got our passports vised. Next we went to the Netherlands Consulate and obtained forms for making application to go to Holland and we were informed that we must have three photographs each to put on the forms of application. We went to the photographer and had our [page break] photos taken and wai[te]d about an hour for them. We then went back and handed in our forms of applications and when the photos had been attached we were directed to the Consul General for the Netherlands who went over them adding some to them. I was told that ordinarily it would require two weeks but by cabling to the Holland office we might get reply within a week. I paid 16/6 = $4.00 for the cable.

This was a big day’s work and what there is to come I know not. If we get to Holland we may have a similar ordeal getting permission to go to the other countries. We will probably have a full week in London.

Pres. McKay and wife and Alice & I attended a theatre in the evening.

London.

Mother & I are well.

We spent the forenoon at Deseret writing letters &c. In the afternoon Alice & I went sight seeing. We took Buss No. 76 from Deseret to the Bank of London and from there on Buss No. 11 we went to Trafalgar Square or Charring Cross. From there we went on buss to the Marble Arch and Chapel Street & return to Trafalgar Ssquare.

Then we took buss to Regents Park and from ther took buss to the “Coo-ological Gardens”. By buss we went to Camden Town & got buss to Finsbury Park and [page break] from there to Stamford Hill on buss and walked to Deseret. We called in to a picture show but left before the play was finished. Retired at 10:30 tired but pleased with our outing

London.

We are well.

Alice and I attended S. School at Deseret at 11 A.M. At three P.M. we attended an open meeting in Finsbury park for abt. 1½ hours with success. Hundreds of people gathered and after the closing prayr we sang, “O My Father” and still the crowd lingered. Elders Hawks & Folland and I were the speakers. I enjoyed good liberty and freedom of thought and expression amid some confusion.

At the Hall meeting I spoke upon the theme of Mothers Day.

At 8:30 We held a street meeting and I was one of the speakers.

After meeting I had a conversation with a Catholic Gentleman in our hall.

London.

I spent the forenoon at Deseret. Wrote letters, interviewed a prospective missionary André Constantine Anastasiour, a Russian by birth. After dinner Alice and I went to the office of “The Batavier Batavier Line” and [page break] made conditional berth reservations to Rotterdam for Wednesday next.

We visited “All Hallows Church” where it is said that Wm Penn was christened and where U.S. President John Quincy Adams was married. We saw an inscription on the floor flagging of a burial in 1540.

We visited “St. Botolph Church” formerly known as, “Holy Trinity Minories”. An inscription on the front of the Church says it was built in 1293.

Being thoroughly tired I took a bath and retired at 9 P.M. and had a good nights rest. The weather has been ideal since we came to London last Friday.

London.

Beautiful day We are well.

I arose in good time and did some writing before breakfast. Alice and I spent the forenoon at Deseret and in the afternoon went down town on business. Spent the evening at Deseret visiting with Pres. McKay as we expect to leave for Holland tomorrow.

London

Alices birth day 55 yrs of age.

We obtained vises of the Netherland’s Consul General to our passports, Booked out of London for (the Netherlands) Holland at the [page break] police station, purchased our transportation tickets and took train at the Fenchurch Street Station at 4:46 for Tilbury where We went aboard, “The Batavier VI” of the Batavier Line for Holland. The boat started at 7:15 P.M. Sister R. and I sat up out side in the open air until about 9:30. She had No. 4 and I had No. 12. The sea was not rough and we went nicely and safely through to Rotterdam without illness and arrived at 1:30. We arrived off the Hook of Holland at 11:30 A.M.

Pres. John A. Butterworth met us at the landing stage and in a buss brought us to the Head Quarters at Crooswijschesingel 7b. I washed up and changed linnen and Alice, Pres. Butterworth and I looked over the house at this address and another building at 16b same single which is offered for sale and on which we have an option until Nov, for which $800. was paid.

We attended regular meeting in the evening and I was the speaker. Pres. John A. Butterworth interpreted.

Bro. & Sis. Von Langeveld came to headquarters after meeting & we visited until about 11 P.M.

Rotterdam.

Beautiful weather. We are well.

We spent the forenoon getting [page break] registered in and trying to arrange to get out.

The afternoon was spent in writing letters and reading news papers from home.

After 9 P.M. Alice President Butterworth and I went for a walk out to the North edge of town and west along the canal and south to the Single on which we live. We were forciply impressed by the number of children of all ages seen on the streets in play. I have seen nothing like it in Gt. Britain.

Rotterdam.

Beautiful day. We are well.

President John A. Butterworth, Alice and I took train about 9:20 A.M. and went to the Hague where we looked up the Swiss and the Belgian LeGations and learned that the French LeGation is in Rotterdam. The representatives took the information necessary from us and 5 gilders = $2.00 and were to telegraph to Switzerland for permission for us to enter that country. It was thought that an answer might be had in four or five days.

The Belgian representative said that in as much as I desired only to pass through Belgium to Basel, Switzerland, if I would secure the vise of the French & Swiss countries, he would vise [page break] our passports without delay. We will call on the French Consulate in Rotterdam Monday. We went out to the sea side resort of Scheveningen and spent about 1½ hrs walking about. We visited the old prison which is said to have been built in 1300, 600 years ago. It was here that the tortures by the Spanish Catholics took place under the cloak of religion in the time of the Inquisition 17th century. Instruments of torture were shown us, dungeons, starvation room adjoining the food kitchen &c. That men and women should suffer such tortures because they followed Luther & other Protestants is evidence that God was not with the Roman Catholic Church, hence their claim of authority is nil. As a murderer hath not in him eternal life so the church.

We obtained a good impression of the Hague from what we saw of it. We returned to Rotterdam on train leaving about 5:30 P.M.

Rotterdam.

Beautiful weather.

We are well.

Pres. John A. Butterworth, Alice and I took train at about 9:30 A.M. and went to Dordrecht which is about ten miles S.E. of Rotterdam, and attended a special public [page break] meeting at 10:30. I occupied the time and Pres. Butterworth translated. After meeting we took dinner at the home of Bro. & Sis. Rulof Huijters.

After dinner, the Branch President, Elder Bertus Von Raamsonk, Elder Jacobus Von Langeveld, Pres. Butterworth, Sister Richards and I walked about the town until train time.

We took train for Rotterdam at 5:15 P.M. and arrived at 6 P.M. and went direct to the hall where we attended meeting, the house being well filled. I did the preaching and Pres. Butterfield translated or interpreted for me.

We had a good day and I think a profitable one.

There is some beautiful scenery in Dordrecht. The trees in this country are beautiful.

Rotterdam.

We are well.

The weather continues beautiful. Pres. B., Sister R. & I went to the French Consulate and Sis. R. & I made formal application for the privilege of going through France to Switzerland. The usual demand for three passport photos each was demanded and furnished. We were told that we would get answer after next Friday but that we could in no event go through Belgium to France but that we would have to go to Dunkirk by boat if we go at all. Pres. Butterworth, Elder Jacobus [page break] Von Longefeld & wife, Sister R. & I took train for the Hague at 2:30 P.M. We visited the Queen’s palace in the woods, the Peace palace and in the evening we attended meeting and I was the speaker and occupied about an hour and a quarter. Elder Langefeld interpreted. After the meeting we returned to Rotterdam. We found awaiting us two letters from Pres. Heber J. Grant and one from Liverpool. Retired late.

Rotterdam.

Mother & I are well. Weather continues fine.

We spent most of the day answering correpondence and took train at about 6 P.M. for Utricht where we attended meeting at 8 P.M. I occupied the time, assisted by Pres. Jno A. Butterworth who interpreted. Here we met for the first time Elder Newton L. Andrus of Yucon, Ida. and Elder Francis O. Jones of Mt. Pleasant. Alice and I and Pres. B. stayed at the home of Bro. Kwant and had comfortable quarters.

Utricht

All well.

Another fine day.

At breakfast I talked to Bro. Kwant who is a well to-do merchant about missionary work and asked if he did not feel like assisting some man to fill a mission. He there promised to give five gilders per week for two years and would [page break] pay it all at once to the Mission President if desired. A gilder is an a Dutch Dollar, the equivalent of 40¢ American money. This contribution equals $208.00 American money.

We left Utricht at about 10:20 A.M. for Amsterdam where we spent the afternoon visiting the Museum and art gallery, and the “Panorama of the Entrance of Christ into the Holy City, Jerusalem, from Egypt riding on an ass.” This is one of the grandest things we have ever seen. It was like standing on an eminance in the midst of the Holy Land and with opera glasses we viewed the City of Jerusalem, the Mt. of Olives, the Garden of Gethsemena, the plains of Judea, a part of the dead sea and the road from Jerico.

We attended meeting in the evening where there were about 175 people in attendance and with Pres. J. A. Butterworth as interpreter, I spoke with much freedom and satisfaction upon the Gospel theme, occupying 70 minutes. At this meeting we met Elder Mahonri A. Josephson of Brigham City and Elder John Johannas Roothoff of Amsterdam, missionaries. Elders Jones and Andrus were over from Utricht also.

While in Amsterdam Alice and I stayed at Hotel Van Holland.

Amsterdam.

We are well.

A beautiful day.

I wrote up my journal for the past two days before leaving the hotel. [page break]

We visited the Queen’s Palace which was built as and for a Town Hall but was presented to the Emperor Napoleon who occupied it for one year and owned it for six years. Pres. Butterworth, Alice & I left Amsterdam on 1:20 P.M. train and arrived in Gronengin about 6 P.M. We were met at the Station by Elders Herbert E. Williams and Alvin J Teuscher, and we went to the Hotel facing north the public square and large church tower from whose heights the watchman 70 yrs of age has for 50 years blown his horn every half hour in the night to say all is well in town. No fire or other trouble.

We attended evening meeting and I did the speaking occupying 1 hr 20 m. Pres. Butterworth interpreting.

Groningen.

We have enjoyed good health and the weather has been beautiful since we left Liverpool two weeks ago yesterday. We left for Arnhem on 8:45 and arrived in Arnham at 1:40 P.M. Elders Williams, & Teuscher and Local Elders Wilam Woltjer & Jacobus Bergheis accompanied us and Pres. Butterworth went on to Rotterdam.

We walked out after luncheon and visited the park and saw the 12 trees about 2 ft diam. in a circle of about 20 feet diameter. They were on the top of the hill and are called the Twelve Apostles. We also saw the boat bridge over which Napoleon & his troops passed to enter Arnham.

We stayed at Hotel Park. [page break]

Arnham.

Alice and I attended a missionary meeting where there were 12 of us elders and two women. Each spoke briefly except myself who occupied about 40 minutes. A good meeting. After meeting we took dinner where the elders lodge. Pres. Jno. A. Butterworth came from Rotterdam after 3 P.M. He sat in a rear car off a train at the station while the fore section of the train pulled out without him. He should have been here in time for the 11 A.M. meeting. The elders Sister R. & Sis. Longefield and I went out to another park out of town for an outing.

Arnham, Holland

We are well and the weather continues fine.

We attended three public conference meetings and I was the last speaker in each. At the evening meeting I occupied about 80 minutes. I had fair liberty and felt afterward satisfied.

After bidding good night to elders & Saints Alice and I retired to our room at the Hotel and had supper served on a tray.

In this room beautifully furnished, we have had our first experience with fleas in Holland. [page break]

Arnhem, Holland

Pres. Butterworth, Sis. R. & I returned to Rotterdam via Hague and at the Hague we called on the Swiss Consul and learned that no reply had yet been received from our application for permission to enter Switzerland. We called at the French Consulate and learned that we could go through France to Switzerland via Dunkirk but would have to have the business attended to at the Hague also.

We went to the Old church in which the Pilgrim fathers met before embarking for America <July 1620> and in the Register kept there we saw the names of many of the Elders.

We took supper at Bro. & Sis DeGasts’

Rotterdam.

We are well. Fine day.

Pres. Butterworth & I went to the Hague on business. Took 9 A.M. train and returned at 12 noon. Pres. Butterworth went up again in the afternoon and got our passports which had the vise’s extended to June 14th. for Netherlands.

I wrote letters and read the Salt Lake papers in the afternoon.

Rotterdam.

All well Fine weather.

I spent most of the day writing letters. [page break]

President Butterworth and I went to the home of Sister Fennema and administered to her.

Rotterdam.

We are all well and the weather continues ideal. The country is beautiful.

This is a public holiday in Holland. President John A. Butterworth, Bro. & Sis Von Longefeld, Alice and I and Sister Aafjie Rootoff took 6:50 train for Amsterdam where we got 10:30 boat for the island of “Marken” in the Zuiderzee (South Sea). We went via canal through two sets of locks as far as “Moonikehdame” where we spent about 45 minutes viewing the anscient church said to have been built in 1300 A.D. and other places of interest. From here we passed through other locks and by sea went to Marken which is several miles from this city.

At Marken we saw the real Dutch costume in its most attractive style. It being “Ascention Day”, a meeting was being held while we were there and we saw the men and women going to church dressed in their best clothes. [page break] We also saw inside the Church while the services were in progress. We have post cards representing the dress of these people which is Real Dutch. After an hours’ stay in Marken we returned by open sea to Amsterdam, thence by train to Rotterdam, arriving soon after 8 o’clock. The scenery was beautiful going and coming and the ride enjoyable. I had a gospel talk with an English speaking lady on the train returning.

While on the So. Sea two Seaplanes alighted in the water and maneauvered about us.

Rotterdam.

All well. Continued fine weather. I arose early as usual.

I spent the day writing &c until after supper and then Alice & I accompanied by Sister Von Longefeld went out to a park on tram car and saw a part of the town while enroute to & from.

After two weeks waiting we received French vise to our passports.

Rotterdam

We are both well.

The weather is still beautiful. We arrived in Holland on the 15th [page break] inst. and every day since has been a perfect day.

This morning’s mail brought us a letter in French from the Swiss Consulate at “The Hague,” denying our request for vise of passports. We therefore secured passage on the Badavier Line Ship to Tilbury in the Thames, London. for this evening. I assisted by Pres Butterworth & Elder Von Longefeld administered to a brother who came from the Gague for the purpose. I was busy making preparation to leave for Liverpool. Talked over business with President Butterworth.

We left Rotterdam at 10 P.M.

Pres. Butterworth & Bro & Sis. Von Longefeld saw us off. We had a smoothe sea and pleasant voyage with no illness.