Steamship Wisconsin, Off Queenstown5 p.m., July 3, 1873President A. Carrington.
Dear Brother.--Immediately after waving good-bye to our friends who returned to shore in the last tender, we began organizing the Saints. The company being one of the largest of our companies that have crossed the Atlantic, we anticipated some labor in regulating affairs to suit, but we readily went through the compartments allotted to the Saints, and appointed good trusty men to preside over the twelve wards into which we divided the company; and it gives us pleasure to notice an agreeableness and disposition to oblige that makes affairs go off very pleasantly.
We appointed Elder Neils Larsen captain of the guard, and Elders H. P. Wild and Peter F. Madsen chaplains.
Since leaving Liverpool we have had quite a stiff breeze and rather rough sea, occasioning not a little sea-sickness; but we console ourselves by trusting we shall be the sooner over it.
So far we all feel quite satisfied with the officers and assistants of this vessel, their conduct being kind and courteous.
Please permit us, each and all, returning missionaries, upon this occasion, to express a part of the good feelings we experience towards the Saints among whom we have labored in the various fields assigned to us, and to the President of the European Mission for his wise and fatherly course with us.
With the best wishes of us all, and our faith and prayers for the welfare and success of yourself and all at 42, and of the Saints throughout the European Mission, we remain your brethren and fellow-laborers in the cause of Truth.
D. O. CalderCanaute PetersonPeter F. Madsen
S. S. Jones
Paul Dehlin
BIB: Calder, David O. et.,al, [Letter], Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star 35:27 (July 8, 1873) p. 427. (CHL)
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