Queenstown, on board S. S. Wisconsin Thursday, June 17, 1875.12:10 (Noon)President Joseph F. Smith.
Dear Brother,--We left our moorings yesterday at 5:30 p.m., and at 8 we called the Saints together and organized with the following officers:
Thomas Hull, clerk and historian for the company which is divided into two wards - English and Swiss. Peter Romeril, President of the English Ward, with Edward Warren, officer of the guard, and Joseph Eerstner, President of the Swiss Ward, with Jacob [Johann] Zwahlen, officer of the guard.
We meet for morning prayer at 7, and evening at 8 o'clock.
We moved slowly until we had passed the bar, after which we steamed smoothly and pleasantly along to this place. All are feeling well, very little seasickness. Everyone is as comfortable as could possibly be expected.
Elders M. [Milton] H. Hardy,Peter Sinclair,E. N. Freeman,Jacob Zundel,
join in love.
Your brother,
R. [Robert] T. Burton. [p.397]
BIB: Hardy, M. H., [Letter], Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star
37:25 (June 21, 1875) p. 397. (CHL)
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