. . . We started from North Wales, Meirionethshire Parish, Festiniog, Bethania in the year 1856, April 9th. On the 10th arrived in Liverpool and on the 19th we went into the ship S. Curling which was on the 20th to start her journey across the Atlantic. This journey was very rough the sea was raising like mountains and tossing the ship in every way. May 24th we arrived in Boston on the continent of America. In a day or two we took the railroad cars to travel from here to Sea City, Iowa. We was about eight days on the railroad and stayed here nearly three weeks. After this we took our journey across the plains to Utah with the hand carts and arrived in Salt Lake City October 2nd. This journey was very hard because we did not have half enough to eat for the support of our bodies and very hard work to draw the handcart. . . . [p.7]

BIB: Roberts, Robert David, [Letter]. Family Record, 1854-1921. [LDS Church Archives, Ms 1726, fd. 2, p. 7; Acc. #25804] (CHL)
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