University of Otago Library Letter: Jeffery Hart Bent to Reverend Samuel Marsden, 3 April 1817 Jeffery Hart Bent Author Reverend Samuel Marsden Receiver H.M.S. Kangaroo The ship that sent the letter Isabella The ship that returned the reply text Letter New South Wales, Australia 3 April 1817 23 February 1818 9 March 1818 12 March 1818 Notes about where the letter was created: New South Wales eng text/html 321 x 201 mm 2 leaves 4 pages reformatted digital Hocken Collections' Title: Judge Bent to Marsden Other Address Details: Addressed to Samuel Marsden in letter but on back of letter addressed to Rev. Josiah Pratt, London Sydney -33.861293,151.212645 April 1817 Sir Colonies -- History Colony March Station Hope Hope Offensive (Military science) Attack Mrs Marsden Jeffery Judge Wales 52.133488,-3.780155 Revd Chaplain Hocken Collections, University of Otago Library, Dunedin, New Zealand. http://www.marsdenarchive.otago.ac.nz/MS_0056_054 http://www.marsdenarchive.otago.ac.nz/MS_0056_054_001 http://www.marsdenarchive.otago.ac.nz/MS_0056_054_002 http://www.marsdenarchive.otago.ac.nz/MS_0056_054_003 http://www.marsdenarchive.otago.ac.nz/MS_0056_054_004 MS_0056_054 Trimble 54 CMS Number 72 The manuscript images, transcripts and metadata displayed on the Marsden Online Archive site are governed by a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 New Zealand (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 NZ) copyright agreement (available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/nz/). Please contact the Hocken Collections, University of Otago Library, Dunedin, New Zealand for more information. University of Otago Library 2015-06-11T10:33:20+12:00 machine generated eng Letter: Jeffery Hart Bent to Reverend Samuel Marsden, 3 April 1817 Jeffery Hart Bent University of Otago Library Digitised from the Hocken Library Collection Number MS-0056/054 Trimble 54 CMS Number 72 Digitised by the Marsden Online Archive Library of Congress Subject Headings Letter Maori Subject Headings Reverend Samuel Marsden 3 April 1817 New South Wales, Australia H.M.S. Kangaroo Isabella 23 February 1818 9 March 1818 British English Colonies -- History Hope Offensive (Military science) Sydney April 1817 Colony March Station Hope Attack Marsden Jeffery Wales Chaplain Sydney 5th April 1817 My dear Sir/ As my departure from this Colony is now fixed I avail myself of the Occasion presented by your letter of the 11 March to say that tho’ I have had no great cause to regret leaving a Country where I have met with continual trouble and vexation yet still I have derived considerable gratification as by a residence here I have had the pleasure of becoming acquainted with you, and I am truly sorry to observe that trials similar to those which have been so successfully thrown round me, seem to be preparing for you, and that a spirit of Hostility towards you, has been and is still so very apparent in a quarter whence you were intitled entitled to every support, so that it is even the common talk amongst a certain party that you are to be the next victim to caprice and dislike; I have also heard that expressions of such tendency have fallen from a person whose mind the station & office he holds, should have impressed the duty of strict impartiality and the necessity of keeping himself pure from any invi=dious statements ~ I do not however fear the result though perhaps you may have a hard task & pregnant with much mortification. That you will finally make them ashamed I am sure & I need not add that it is my sincere hope, The contrary I will not contemplate. Every Man of Honorable Principle has for some time past found it difficult to struggle with the system pursued, should any accident happen to yourself, I shall consider the Colony as abandoned to utter ruin and all attempts in future to ameliorate its condition more than probable to prove ineffectual— Who is there within the Colony of sound principles that does not regret he ever entered it? What hope can there be left that any one will venture to do his duty if he is to be subjected to contumely, to be attacked Masque and annoyed in every mode for which a plausible pretext can be found? Your long residence here must have given you much experience. But I am confident you never felt such anxiety nor ever had so much to contend against or to feel from Prejudice Passion & Power as within these few last years— It is hard to be put upon a defence from unjust attack, & groundless calumnies. But when similar attacks are continued & with redoubled bitterness, who can continue the never ending contest. That you may wear through it I do most heartily wish and I look forward to the time when we may meet with brighter prospects than when we part. I should have written to you much sooner, but the unexpected difficulties wich occurred to prevent my departure in the Ship Surry , and of which you are not ignorant must plead my excuse. I beg my best remembrances to Mrs Marsden and am My Dear Sir Your very faithful Servant (Signed) Jeffery Hart Bent late Judge of the Supr[eme] C[our]t N S Wales To the Revd S. Marsden Principal Chaplain &c &c &c Hocken Archive Reference Number MS-0056/054 34MB image/tif 6.0 Uncompressed MD5 07633c984d9e345420bb7928c92ed80f ACEMC 2790 4380 RGB manuscript Hakena MS-0056/054 201 mm 321 mm 2014:03:21 08:58:06.81 University of Otago Library, Reprographics Unit digital still camera Canon Canon EOS 6D 11.0 1 Manual 0220 1 11.0 6.9 1.4 Multi-segment tungsten flash did not fire 50.0 mm (35 mm equivalent: 63.3 mm) 0 Subject is illuminated from the front side. Auto Focus Used Normal Digitised as part of the Mining Marsden Project in 2013/2014 8, 8, 8 integer 3 2014:03:21 11:17:54.81 University of Otago Library, Reprographics Unit Processing actions undertaken to: prepare the image for online digital use and maintain the integrity of the image. Adobe Photoshop CS6 Windows 7 Cropped item to remove excess border and straightened the image. The manuscript images, transcripts and metadata displayed on the Marsden Online Archive site are governed by a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 New Zealand (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 NZ) copyright agreement (available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/nz/). Please contact the Hocken Collections, University of Otago Library, Dunedin, New Zealand for more information. Hocken Collections, University of Otago Library, Dunedin, New Zealand. hocken@otago.ac.nz Hocken Archive Reference Number MS-0056/054 33MB image/tif 6.0 Uncompressed MD5 c127e5618094165f33a87de5873b54d6 ACEMC 2754 4266 RGB manuscript Hakena MS-0056/054 201 mm 321 mm 2014:03:21 08:58:43.33 University of Otago Library, Reprographics Unit digital still camera Canon Canon EOS 6D 11.0 1 Manual 0220 1 11.0 6.9 1.4 Multi-segment tungsten flash did not fire 50.0 mm (35 mm equivalent: 64.8 mm) 0 Subject is illuminated from the front side. Auto Focus Used Normal Digitised as part of the Mining Marsden Project in 2013/2014 8, 8, 8 integer 3 2014:03:21 11:11:30.33 University of Otago Library, Reprographics Unit Processing actions undertaken to: prepare the image for online digital use and maintain the integrity of the image. Adobe Photoshop CS6 Windows 7 Cropped item to remove excess border and straightened the image. The manuscript images, transcripts and metadata displayed on the Marsden Online Archive site are governed by a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 New Zealand (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 NZ) copyright agreement (available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/nz/). Please contact the Hocken Collections, University of Otago Library, Dunedin, New Zealand for more information. Hocken Collections, University of Otago Library, Dunedin, New Zealand. hocken@otago.ac.nz Hocken Archive Reference Number MS-0056/054 34MB image/tif 6.0 Uncompressed MD5 4c8b119502f0389727c4bc071fac6498 ACEMC 2778 4380 RGB manuscript Hakena MS-0056/054 201 mm 321 mm 2014:03:21 08:56:50.82 University of Otago Library, Reprographics Unit digital still camera Canon Canon EOS 6D 11.0 1 Manual 0220 1 11.0 6.9 1.4 Multi-segment tungsten flash did not fire 50.0 mm (35 mm equivalent: 63.4 mm) 0 Subject is illuminated from the front side. Auto Focus Used Normal Digitised as part of the Mining Marsden Project in 2013/2014 8, 8, 8 integer 3 2014:03:21 10:58:31.82 University of Otago Library, Reprographics Unit Processing actions undertaken to: prepare the image for online digital use and maintain the integrity of the image. Adobe Photoshop CS6 Windows 7 Cropped item to remove excess border and straightened the image. The manuscript images, transcripts and metadata displayed on the Marsden Online Archive site are governed by a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 New Zealand (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 NZ) copyright agreement (available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/nz/). Please contact the Hocken Collections, University of Otago Library, Dunedin, New Zealand for more information. Hocken Collections, University of Otago Library, Dunedin, New Zealand. hocken@otago.ac.nz Hocken Archive Reference Number MS-0056/054 34MB image/tif 6.0 Uncompressed MD5 ec4f1fa3e7bdb73ac94b0a7acb7cfdea ACEMC 2712 4404 RGB manuscript Hakena MS-0056/054 201 mm 321 mm 2014:03:21 08:59:17.24 University of Otago Library, Reprographics Unit digital still camera Canon Canon EOS 6D 11.0 1 Manual 0220 1 11.0 6.9 1.4 Multi-segment tungsten flash did not fire 50.0 mm (35 mm equivalent: 63.6 mm) 0 Subject is illuminated from the front side. Auto Focus Used Normal Digitised as part of the Mining Marsden Project in 2013/2014 8, 8, 8 integer 3 2014:03:21 11:13:43.24 University of Otago Library, Reprographics Unit Processing actions undertaken to: prepare the image for online digital use and maintain the integrity of the image. Adobe Photoshop CS6 Windows 7 Cropped item to remove excess border and straightened the image. The manuscript images, transcripts and metadata displayed on the Marsden Online Archive site are governed by a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 New Zealand (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 NZ) copyright agreement (available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/nz/). Please contact the Hocken Collections, University of Otago Library, Dunedin, New Zealand for more information. Hocken Collections, University of Otago Library, Dunedin, New Zealand. hocken@otago.ac.nz