Hyde left Bedford on 7 June 1841, departing England later that month and journeying through other European countries en route to Jerusalem before arriving on 21 October 1841. (Orson Hyde, London, England, to George J. Adams, Bedford, England, 7 June 1841, in Page, Spaulding Story, 10; Letter from Orson Hyde, 17 July 1841; Hyde, Voice from Jerusalem, 8.)

Page, John E. The Spaulding Story, concerning the Origin of the Book of Mormon, Duly Examined, and Exposed to the Righteous Contempt of a Candid Public. Pittsburgh: By the author, 1843.

Hyde, Orson. A Voice from Jerusalem, or a Sketch of the Travels and Ministry of Elder Orson Hyde, Missionary of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, to Germany, Constantinople, and Jerusalem. Liverpool: P. P. Pratt, 1842.

These communities are in southeast England.

Woolwich is located on the outskirts of London, whereas Ramsgate is approximately eighty miles east.

On 5 August 1841 a correspondent wrote that after Adams arrived in London he “held two public discussions, and is going to hold another to-morrow evening—he is obliged to get a large place to hold it in, as the meeting place is not half large enough—he has preached twice in the Regent Park, and is to preach there again next Sunday.” (“Extract from a Letter to Elder H. C. Kimball,” Times and Seasons, 1 Oct. 1841, 2:557.)

Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.

Snow reported baptizing twenty-three individuals during his three-week stay in Bedford. (News Items, Millennial Star, Sept. 1841, 2:76.)

Latter-day Saints’ Millennial Star. Manchester, England, 1840–1842; Liverpool, 1842–1932; London, 1932–1970.

Kimball, Smith, and Woodruff began their missionary labors in London on 18 August 1840 and spent the majority of their time there during the next several months. Smith departed for Staffordshire on 10 November 1840 because of declining health. Kimball and Woodruff left London in late February 1841. Kimball visited Woolwich in mid-December 1840. (JS History, vol. C-1, 1123; Heber C. Kimball, Nauvoo, IL, 4 Aug. 1841, Letter to the Editor, Times and Seasons, 16 Aug. 1841, 2:507–510; Woodruff, Journal, 26 Feb. 1841.)

Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.

Woodruff, Wilford. Journals, 1833–1898. Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.

Brotherton arrived in Bedford on 6 June 1841. (George J. Adams, Northampton, England, to Parley P. Pratt, 22 June 1841, in Millennial Star, July 1841, 2:37.)

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In an October 1841 letter, Adams wrote that seventeen were confirmed on 3 October and that hundreds attended his farewell address that evening. (George J. Adams, Bedford, England, to Parley P. Pratt, 5 Oct. 1841, in Millennial Star, Jan. 1842, 2:144.)

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Birmingham and West Bromwich are in the West Midlands region of England.

In a 14 December 1841 letter, Adams stated that he arrived in Liverpool on 28 October 1841. (George J. Adams, Liverpool, England, to Parley P. Pratt, 14 Dec. 1841, in Millennial Star, Jan. 1842, 2:141.)

Latter-day Saints’ Millennial Star. Manchester, England, 1840–1842; Liverpool, 1842–1932; London, 1932–1970.

The meeting that evening was arranged prior to Adams’s arrival and was advertised via “large placards . . . posted through the town.” (George J. Adams, Liverpool, England, to Parley P. Pratt, 14 Dec. 1841, in Millennial Star, Jan. 1842, 2:141.)

Latter-day Saints’ Millennial Star. Manchester, England, 1840–1842; Liverpool, 1842–1932; London, 1932–1970.

Historian R. J. Broadbent described the Music Hall as “a plain brick edifice” on “Bold Street at the corner of Concert Street.” Constructed in 1786, the building once served primarily as a concert hall. In February 1841 John Taylor reported that he arranged for the Saints to hold their meetings in the Music Hall for twelve months. (Broadbent, Annals of the Liverpool Stage, 334; Letter from John Taylor, 3 Feb. 1841.)

Broadbent, R. J. Annals of the Liverpool Stage from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Together with Some Account of the Theatres and Music Halls in Bootle and Birkenhead. Liverpool: Edward Howell, 1908.

These five meetings included a three-evening debate on the Book of Mormon with “Mr. J. B. Philips, of the Church of England,” at the Queen’s Theatre; two discussions in Liverpool, including a debate with “Mr. M’Intosh, a Socialist lecturer,” at the Hall of Science in Liverpool; and a two-evening debate with “Mr. Stevenson, a Wesleyan minister.” Adams’s fifth public discussion may have been his response to a “Mr. Brindley,” who gave a lecture against the church. (George J. Adams, Liverpool, England, to Parley P. Pratt, 14 Dec. 1841, in Millennial Star, Jan. 1842, 2:141–143.)

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Adams delivered his farewell address “on the subject of restoration” on the evening of Sunday, 5 December 1841. According to Adams, he “had the largest congregation ever assembled in the hall with the saints.” Approximately twenty-five hundred individuals attended. (George J. Adams, Liverpool, England, to Parley P. Pratt, 14 Dec. 1841, in Millennial Star, Jan. 1842, 2:143.)

Latter-day Saints’ Millennial Star. Manchester, England, 1840–1842; Liverpool, 1842–1932; London, 1932–1970.