University of Otago Library Letter: Reverend Edward Bickersteth and Reverend Josiah Pratt to John King, 14 December 1818 Reverend Edward Bickersteth Author Reverend Josiah Pratt Author John King Receiver Baring The ship that sent the letter text Letter London, England 14 December 1818 Notes about where the letter was created: Church Missionary House, London eng text/html 321 x 191 mm 1 leaves 1 pages reformatted digital Hocken Collections' Title: CMS Secretary to John King Annotations: Copy Dwellings House London 51.513016,-0.127931 Sir Committees Committee July New Zealanders Peace Peace Missions, New Zealand New Zealand Mission Station Hope Hope Iron Iron Josiah Pratt Bickersteth Hocken Collections, University of Otago Library, Dunedin, New Zealand. http://www.marsdenarchive.otago.ac.nz/MS_0056_108 http://www.marsdenarchive.otago.ac.nz/MS_0056_108_001 http://www.marsdenarchive.otago.ac.nz/MS_0056_108_002 MS_0056_108 Trimble 108 CMS Number 127 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 2015-06-11T09:38:51+12:00 machine generated eng Letter: Reverend Edward Bickersteth and Reverend Josiah Pratt to John King, 14 December 1818 Reverend Edward Bickersteth and Reverend Josiah Pratt University of Otago Library Digitised from the Hocken Library Collection Number MS-0056/108 Trimble 108 CMS Number 127 Digitised by the Marsden Online Archive Library of Congress Subject Headings Letter Maori Subject Headings John King 14 December 1818 London, England Baring British English Dwellings Committees Peace Missions, New Zealand Hope Iron House London Committee July New zealanders Peace New zealand mission Station Hope Iron Josiah Pratt Bickersteth Church Missionary House, London, Dec[embe]r 14/[18]18 My Dear Sir The Committee were gratified with your last Letter dated July 23/17. They are happy to see that you are now fairly engaged in your work; & they trust that you will steadily go on, in labouring for the good of the New Zealanders, united & at peace among yourselves, & disinterestedly seeking to forward the Kingdom of Christ. We are happy, at length, to be able to send a considerable reinforcement to the New Zealand Mission, at the head of which is a worthy & excellent Clergyman. The Committee are persuaded that you will receive these fresh Labourers, with all cordiality; & will render them every assistance in your power, towards their being comfortably settled at the station where they will be fixed. The Committee are glad to hear of the progress of the New Zealand boys in spinning. They hope you talk with them frequently on the love of Christ, & our great design in sending you among them. We have sent one Iron Kettle for each family by this opportunity. We are, Dear Sir, Truly Yours, (Signed) Josiah Pratt Edward Bickersteth Hocken Archive Reference Number MS-0056/108 34MB image/tif 6.0 Uncompressed MD5 db621c8ae342197f2a7f2d64a47375ce ACEMC 2676 4524 RGB manuscript Hakena MS-0056/108 191 mm 321 mm 2014:04:02 14:50:10.84 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: 62.6 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 2014:04:08 10:18:51 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