While the Elders were in they wrote as follows:

The foregoing letter was written and sealed in presence of Presidents and who had gone to to witness the brethren sail, and by the writers committed to their special charge that no one should know the contents until the fulfilment thereof. Previous to this period very little of the foolish and wicked stories which filled the weekly Journals, and pamphlets in , concerning the Mormons, -[as the saints [HC 3:21] were termed]- had found its way into the English prints, but <​15 Liveseys Pamphlets​> immediately after, Elders and left , or about the 15th of April, One Livesy, (a Methodist Priest, who had previously spent some years in , and said he heard nothing about the saints in ,) came out with a pamphlet made up of forged letters, Apostate lies. and “walk on the water” stories he found in old American papers which he had picked up while in , but he stopped the circulation of his own pamphlets by stating to a public congregation that he had “accidentally found the contents of the pamphlet in old papers in his trunk which was quite providential to stop such abominable work as the Saints were engaged in,”— and in the same Lecture said he “wished the people to purchase his pamphlets as he had been at great expence to procure the materials for writing it.” His hearers retired.

<​Tuesday 17. Revelation to ​> I received the following Revelation. Given at . April 17,th 1844 <​1838​>

<​Revelation to .​> Also I received the following Revelation. Given to at . April 17th. 1838.

<​ & sailed. 20​> Elders and sailed from on the ship Garrick. April 20th. [HC 3:22]

<​ Thursday, 26. Revelation.​> I received the following Revelation. Given at . April 26th. 1838 Making known the will of God concerning the building up of this place, and of [p. 790]