S. S. Nevada, New York Harbor, May 21, 1874.President Joseph F. Smith.

Dear Brother,--After a long and tedious voyage, we arrived at this port today, at 10 a.m., in good health and spirits, though many have suffered severely with seasickness, owing to high winds and rough seas. There have been no births, deaths or marriages on board, that I am aware of.

After writing to you off Queenstown, about one hundred and sixty Irish emigrants were put on board, which increased the number of souls on board to about one thousand, all told, and causing every yard of available space in the ship to be filled. All the passengers--not of our company--seemed peaceable disposed; hence, we got along without any trouble.

Captain Price treated us with every courtesy we could ask for, and gave our people every attention they needed. He is a gentleman as well as a good seaman. He told us more than once that anything our people required for their comfort, they should have, if it were in his power to grant it. We have nothing whatever to complain of on the part of the officers and crew of the ship.

We expect to leave here tomorrow, at 3 p.m., by train, for the far west. All well.

Ever praying for you and all those associated with you, and the cause in [p.379] which we are all engaged, we are,

Your brethren in the gospel,

L. [Letser] J. HerrickR. [Robert] McQuarrieJohn E. ReesJ. [James] T. Little [p.380]

BIB: Herrick, L. [Letser] J., et. al.[Letter] Latter-day Saints
Millennial Star 36:36 (June 16, 1874) pp. 379-80. (CHL)
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