[On this date Ellen White, her son, W. C. White and her secretary-nurse, Sara McEnterfer, left Battle Creek for a tour of the Eastern states. A few weeks earlier Elder O. A. Olsen, the General Conference president, had announced in the church paper, “Elder W. C. White, Sister White, and Brother Chadwick will attend important meetings in Dist. No. 1, viz., the annual meetings of the Conference and Tract and Missionary Society of the New England Conference; the same in the Atlantic Conference; the State meeting in Pennsylvania, and the Virginia Conference.”—The Review and Herald, September 16, 1890, p. 576.] SVD 4.1