[Apostle Willard Richards Journal] Near Cutler's Park. Cool. Wind northeast. Light fog and a few clouds. Some scolding in camp about keeping up their cattle according to council last evening. [At] 7, President Young busy in fitting wagons and implements for making and hauling hay, and about noon visited the post office with Elder Kimball and heard a pamphlet by Dr. Homer relating the capture of the steamer, Â"President,Â" by the pirate ship, Â"Flying Mona.Â" Apparently a romance, and directed the clerk to write a letter to the council at Council Point concerning the funds of the Â"Mormon Battalion,Â" etc., as suggested to the council last evening. Dr. Richards and ladies dined with Brother J. D. Lee at 2 p.m., and dictated a letter to Brother Lee for the council at Council Point, and copied the same in the evening after reading it to the President about 6 in the evening.
About 8, President Young came in the post office accompanied by E. D. Wooley and Brothers Felshaw and Sterritt, who had just arrived from Nauvoo and were counseled to cross their families over the river and move into camp if they chose so to do. About 4 p.m., Dr. Sprague reported that he had visited 30 patients in camp and had 15 or 20 more to visit, mostly fevers, and of newcomers, very few of those sick who had been out through the season.
[Apostle Willard Richards Journal]
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