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Letter: Reverend Josiah Pratt to Reverend Samuel Marsden, 8 May 1819
Reverend
Josiah
Pratt
Author
Reverend
Samuel
Marsden
Receiver
text
Letter
London, England
8 May 1819
Notes about where the letter was created: Church Missionary House, London
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Hocken Collections' Title: CMS Secretaries to Marsden
Annotations: Copy; David Shaw [sent by]
Dwellings
House
London
51.513016,-0.127931
Sir
December
baring
ship
Wellington
-41.286062,174.77658
March
Mr
Buxton
New Zealand
-41.244772,174.675751
Claudine
ship
Tooi
Teeterree
david
Shaw
Navies
Navy
Admiral
India
22.755921,79.17572
Station
Flax
Flax
Yorkshire
53.628353,-1.484013
New South Wales
-31.16581,147.034149
Indian
Josiah
Pratt
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MS_0056_153
Trimble 153
CMS Number 170
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Letter: Reverend Josiah Pratt to Reverend Samuel Marsden, 8 May 1819
Reverend Josiah Pratt
University of Otago Library
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Collection Number MS-0056/153
Trimble 153
CMS Number 170
Digitised by the Marsden Online Archive
Library of Congress Subject Headings
Letter
Maori Subject Headings
Reverend Samuel Marsden
8 May 1819
London, England
British English
Dwellings
Navies
Flax
House
London
December
Baring
Wellington
March
Buxton
New zealand
Claudine
Tooi
Teeterree
David
Shaw
Navy
India
Station
Flax
Yorkshire
New south wales
Indian
Josiah
Pratt
C[hurch] M[issionary] House,
London
May 8/19
My dear Sir
We wrote you fully in December last, by the “Baring”; & a few lines, by the “Lord Wellington”, in March.
Your Letter of sep. 26/18 reached us a few days since. It gives us fresh occasion, from your description of your past difficulties, to sympathize with you.
I have put a copy of your Letter into the hands of Mr Buxton, one of our Vice-Presidents, and an active and able Member of Parliament. You will see by the enclosed Letter & packet from him how warmly he enters into your situation. All things, My dear friend, will work together for good, under the gracious guidance of Him whom we serve.
The young Men from New Zealand, sent by the Claudine, have not yet arrived. We shall receive them with all kindness; & we pray that they may return to you in a state as hopeful as that of Tooi & Teeterree.
The coils of Rope which you sent by the “David Shaw” have been offered to the Navy Board: but the Secretary informs us, that a trial having been already made which proved satisfactory, the Admiral Commanding—in—Chief on the East India
Station has been directed to furnish his squadron with rope of that kind.
We are also entering into a further investigation of the Flax. Some manufacturers from Yorkshire speak well of it: but they say we must send out what they call a “swingler”, who is conversant with pulling, steeping, & swingling it. In this state it should be sent to this Country, when it would pay but a trifling duty; but if it is at all “heckled”, it will pay a duty amounting to a prohibition. Perhaps it would be
well for you to send 2 or 3 tons as gathered, that we may get it well ‘swingled” & “heckled” here; & 2 or 3 tons as well “swingled” as it can be done with you, but not “heckled”. I have hopes that it may furnish an excellent material for paper; as a substitute for the wretched cotton rags, which, bleached as they are again & again, have ruined all the paper made for several years. The time may be at no great distance when Paper Mills in New South Wales or in New Zealand, may furnish the immense demands of the Indian Market with far better paper than can now be supplied.
But in all these things we shall be mercifully directed; aiming therein, as I trust we do, at the glory of our Saviour.
I am, My Dear Sir,
Ever affectionately yours,
(Signed) Josiah Pratt
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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
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Subject is illuminated from the front side.
Auto Focus Used
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Digitised as part of the Mining Marsden Project in 2013/2014
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Processing actions undertaken to: prepare the image for online digital use and maintain the integrity of the image.
Adobe Photoshop
CS6
Windows
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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.
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