Salt Lake City. U. T.
August 24. 1869.
Elder A. Carrington,
42. Islington, Liverpool, England.
Dear Bro:-
Yours of 3rd inst is received. Enclosed is advice of all my drafts on you to date.
On the 3rd inst. We forwarded to W. C. Staines to the credit of Liverpool Office $4000.00 On the 9th inst do do $5000.00 At this date do do $2000.00 which is all the money we can raise at present. On the 27th of July I forwarded list of persons whom I have promised to bring out this season, and I do wish for the time to come that the Liverpool Office would let me have the privilege of bringing out those I have promised before the funds are used to assist others; and afterwards the judgment and discretion of others could be exercised to bring out those deemed worthy if there be any funds still to spare for that purpose.
It seems from the Cash statement contained in your letter of 3rd inst, that you are very short of money, and have no means whatever to forward those that I have ordered to be brought out, many of whom have paid here a considerable share of their emigration, and if you can borrow 4 or 5 thousand Pounds at a low rate of interest, say at 3 or 4 per cent per annum, you are at liberty to do so for 12 months, so as to forward those persons ordered out by me. In relation to receiving money here for Drafts, we issue drafts for the amount paid in, and when reference is made to the expense of such families as receive drafts getting to Liverpool, the general reply is that they must help themselves so much, the general feeling being to send the least amount that will enable them to come through, and if those who send drafts, send as they frequently do, a few pounds too little, the Liverpool Office is not called upon to advance anything, but would in most cases retain the use of the money until sufficient is sent, which would most always be the case after a while as those friends are in continual correspondence.
Your brother,
Brigham Young
Salt Lake City, U. T.
August 24. 1869
Prest. A. Carrington,
42, Islington, Liverpool.
Dear Bro:-
I have drawn upon you as follows Since my advice of the 30th
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1964 14 5 8 Sophia Porcher 1976 0 3 3 Wm S. Godbe
1965 5 11 5 Catherine Germin 1977 8 11 5 Niels Jensen
1966 9 10 0 Jesse Tye 1978 5 0 0 Mark Beazer
1967 14 5 8 Edmund J. Brooks 1979 5 0 0 Do
1968 35 12 3 E. L. Butterfield 1980 39 18 6 David Barclay Adams
1969 14 5 8 Wm Paxman 1981 19 18 6 Thomas Heapes
1970 3 17 2 John Labrum 1982 4 0 0 Wm C. Rydalch
1971 8 11 5 Miles Williams 1983 21 8 6 Mary Hepworth
1972 21 7 9 Alfred Spencer 1984 5 14 3 Peter A Nebeker
1973 11 15 2 Woodmansee & Bro 1985 14 5 8 Thorsten Knudsen
1974 14 5 8 Wm. L. Evans 1986 7 2 10 Peter Mortensen
1975 4 0 0 George Thurgood 1987 28 11 5 Daniel Daniels
Your Brother in the Gospel,
Brigham Young