--- title: Times and Seasons description: Issues of 1839 to 1840. authors: - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints editors: - Ebenezer Robinson - Don Carlos Smith - Smith, Joseph, Jr. - Taylor, John collections: - periodicals tags: - newspaper - times-and-seasons - nauvoo - nineteenth-century periodical: Times and Seasons volume: 1 number: 7 published: 1840-05 publisher: E. Robinson and D. C. Smith; later John Taylor publisher_place: Commerce and Nauvoo, Illinois language: en type: article reference: "“Extract of a letter from, Elder J. Taylor to his wife, dated, Liverpool, March 16, 1840,” *Times and Seasons* 1, no. 7 (May 1840): 110–111." printed_title: Extract of a letter from, Elder J. Taylor to his wife, dated, Liverpool, March 16, 1840. source: url: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1840-05_1_7 transcription: Text from the Centerplace.org transcription (https://www.centerplace.org/history/ts/v1n07.htm), with its page breaks; this Internet Archive scan is the reference copy (its OCR was used only as a witness for OCR repair) identifier: per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1840-05_1_7 start_page: 110 end_page: 111 curator_note: A Mormon newspaper published by the church in Nauvoo; included for historical study. Inclusion does not imply endorsement. rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1840 (Nauvoo, Illinois); published before 1931, so public domain in the United States source: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1840-05_1_7 publication_year: 1840 --- # Extract of a letter from, Elder J. Taylor to his wife, dated, Liverpool, March 16, 1840 As regards the situation of things here they are still progressing: I told you about our coming to Liverpool, the first time I preached, ten came forward, we have been baptising [baptizing] since; last week we baptised [baptized] nine: we are to baptise [baptize] tomorrow, how many I know not. The little stone is rolling forth, one of the brethren dreamed he saw two men come to Liverpool, they cast a net into the Sea and pulled it out full of fishes, be was surprised to see them pick the small fish out first and then the large; well if we get all the fish I shall be satisfied. Brother Woodruff has written to the Editors, and another letter has gone from here, so I suppose you will know all things pertaining to the church. Elder Woodruff, has lately left the Potteries where he was and has gone to another neighborhood, and is making Methodist preachers scarce, he baptised [baptized] 132 persons in one week thirteen of them were Methodist preachers, I received a letter from him two days since with this intelligence: he is well.-Elder Clark is preaching and baptising [baptizing] in and about Manchester, the latest account from Elder Turley, he was well, preaching & baptising [baptizing] in the Potteries." The letter above alluded to, has never come to hand. We have been some what disappointed, in not receiving more communications from the elders, while on their way to, and after arriving at England. We hope to have the priviledge [privilege], of laying before our readers, in almost, or quite every number, something from the Twelve and elders laboring in Europe; as the spread of the gospel, in that country is so great, that intelligence from them will be interesting to all.-Ed.