[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] 2d Our spirits are better cheered this morning than they possibly could be with new wine. For the wind has not ownly continued through the night to blow us on our course 10 not an hour but this morning it seems settelled in the North East And we have A beautiful fair gale that fills evry sail & wafts us on our Course towards New York 11 or 12 not an hour. We are this morning about 400 [miles] of New York. We have A beautiful smooth sea And the ship leaps through her serface like a race horse. If this breeze continues in two days we will be in New York. May the Lord Grant it I Pray.
{ } I this day wrote three Letters one to John Neff And sent him $10 for a Note of hand he held against me. This I forwarded by Major Joseph A Stratton. And one to Phebe W Woodruff & one to Reuben Hedlock of Liverpool. We continued to have fair stern Breeze or gale. We run 10 or 11 not an hour through the night under closs reef top sails but it was an exeeding rough night.
[source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
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