Latter Day Saints' Messenger and Advocate/Volume 2/Number 2/Letter from Edward Partridge and Isaac Morley (Nov. 19, 1835)
Kirtland Nov. 10, 1835.
Dear brother in the Lord:
On the 2d day of last June, we left this place on a mission to visit the churches in the eastern states. We passed through a corner of Pennsylvania into the state of New York; through New York into Massachusetts; from thence through a corner of New Hampshire into Maine.—We journeyed in that state as far east and north as Farmington, from thence we passed through the north part of New Hampshire into Vermont: thence south, the whole length of the state; thence through Mass. into Connecticut; and from thence through the state of New York back to this place. We travelled about two thousand miles: visited 2 churches in Pennsylvania; 11 in New York; 2 in Mass. 3 in N. H. four in Maine; five in Vermont; and one in Connecticut; (besides leaving others on the right hand and on the left unvisited,) These twenty six churches number about seven hundred lively members, besides some few that have a measure lost their faith by not being diligent in the cause of God. We can safely say, that we found the churches doing as well as we expected to find them. We held about fifty meetings and baptized three: although we baptized but few, yet we have reason to believe, that others were pricked to the heart, while hearing the word, although spoken in weakness, and had it been consistent for us to have tarried any considerable length of time, in some places, we might, in all probability, have baptized a number more. We trust that our brethren were strengthened by our labors among them. We are confident that many of them will overcome through faith; and inherit the blessings promised to the faithful: even those blessings which eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor yet entered into the heart of man, which God hath prepared for them that love him and keep his commandments.
In the bonds of the new covenant
We remain your brethren,
EDWARD PARTRIDGE,
ISAAC MORLEY.