Lee S. Manwill, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Luke Kelly, July 11, 2001: Saving the legacy tape no. 267

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Lee Manwill Jul II 20 J way, jail in England is spelled gao 1, notj a i 1. And I said "Well that w uld b fin ." So he took me over there, and there was this kind of a slab bed that hung against the wall with hinges on the wall side and then ropes to hold it level. It had a pad on it, and it was clean. He says, "We don't have any prisoners now and you can sleep here if you like. I'll leave it open. If you need to go just take off." So it was unlocked and I spent the night in jail. The next morning I got up and was shaving. There was a washbasin there. I was shaving; getting ready to clean up and be on my way. And he came in. He says, "Well, did you sleep all right?" I said, "I slept very well, thank you. It was very nice. I'm just getting ready to leave and find my way to Lowestoft." He said, "Well, you're not going yet." I said, "How come?" He said, "Well, come over to my house. My wife fixed a nice breakfast for you." So, anyway, by that night I got to Lowestoft. I found my new companion who already had an apartment, a one-room bedroom actually, in a house. But that was quite an interesting experience. I got transferred to Norwich, which is only about twenty or thirty miles away, and then back to Lowestoft. Later on, Hugh B. Brown became president of the British mission and he needed a new secretary. He heard that I could take shorthand and type, so he asked me if I wanted to be his secretary. So they transferred me into British mission offices at 5 Gordon Square. He said, "Well, it wasn't me that needs a secretary. It's Richard R. Lyman who is presiding over all of the European missions." He said, "You'll 15