University of Otago Library Letter: Reverend John Butler to Reverend Samuel Marsden, 9 January 1821 Reverend John Butler Author Reverend Samuel Marsden Receiver text Letter Bay of Islands, New Zealand 9 January 1821 30 July 1821 13 August 1821 20 August 1821 Notes about where the letter was created: Kerikeri, Bay of Island, New Zealand eng text/html 319 x 194 mm 2 leaves 4 pages reformatted digital Hocken Collections' Title: John Butler to Marsden Kiddee Kiddee -35.225429,173.946319 1821 Sir Captn Thompson Hope Hope Shipping Shipping The Active ship Bay Of Islands -35.17886,174.169586 Egypt 26.667096,29.95697 Ringa kaha Muskets Powders Powder Pork Pork Potatoes Potatoes Dwellings House American The Coromandel ship Mr Christian Mr Shepherd Cattle Cattle Kemp Hall General Gates ship Mrs Pratt Bean Fairburn Health Health Children Children Marsden Israel 30.935213,34.864254 Bread Bread Butler Rev Hocken Collections, University of Otago Library, Dunedin, New Zealand. http://www.marsdenarchive.otago.ac.nz/MS_0057_032 http://www.marsdenarchive.otago.ac.nz/MS_0057_032_001 http://www.marsdenarchive.otago.ac.nz/MS_0057_032_002 http://www.marsdenarchive.otago.ac.nz/MS_0057_032_003 http://www.marsdenarchive.otago.ac.nz/MS_0057_032_004 http://www.marsdenarchive.otago.ac.nz/MS_0057_032_005 MS_0057_032 Trimble 32 CMS Number 54 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/). 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University of Otago Library 2015-06-11T13:47:34+12:00 machine generated eng Letter: Reverend John Butler to Reverend Samuel Marsden, 9 January 1821 Reverend John Butler University of Otago Library Digitised from the Hocken Library Collection Number MS-0057/032 Trimble 32 CMS Number 54 Digitised by the Marsden Online Archive Library of Congress Subject Headings Letter Maori Subject Headings Reverend Samuel Marsden 9 January 1821 Bay of Islands, New Zealand 30 July 1821 13 August 1821 British English Hope Shipping Powders Pork Potatoes Dwellings Cattle Health Children Bread Ringa kaha Kiddee kiddee 1821 Thompson Hope Shipping The active Bay of islands Egypt Muskets Powder Pork Potatoes House American The coromandel Christian Mr shepherd Cattle Kemp Hall General gates Pratt Bean Fairburn Health Children Marsden Israel Bread Butler Kiddee Kiddee Jan y - 9 th 1821 Revd & Dear Sir With pleasure I inform you than Captn Thompson, (by whom also you will receive this letter) brought us down a very seasonable supply of stores as we were quite out at the time of his arrival. Help often comes in when hope is gone. Since your departure we have been on the most peaceable and friendly terms with our natives, and nothing appears wanting but courage and exertion to go on in our great and glorious work. However there are many difficulties to contend with, one is, the great want of animal food, occasioned principally by the Shipping. There are five ^ships besides the Active at this time within the Harbour, and it is said there are twelve others without, and ^may be expected at Bay of Islands every day. I need not say to you, That like the Locust in the Land of Egypt they devour every thing; on account of their dealing in Muskets & Powder. You are fully aware of the evil of these things as they prevent us from obtaining supplies from the Natives and renders pork and potatoes very scarce and dear A good supply of rice would be a most valuable thing There is no timber at present at Kiddee Kiddee toward building one a house & the old American House stands as you left it, save that there are a few shingles on one side. George Harrison is gone to the Coromandel he went immediately after you left. Enclosed you have his accounts. The whole of this last month I have been very busy in the harvest fields. but from the sourness of the land, and the long contin=uance of dry weather our crops are very thin. I have reaped Mr Shepherds barley at Ohkular [Okura] but it is not winnowed. The wheat I intend to reap next week. I hope you will give my Christian res=pects to Mr Shepherd as I shall not have time to write to him by this conveyance. The Cattle are all doing remarkably well Messs Kemp and Hall have taken to themselves the Heifer of the black Cow which we brought down with us in the General Gates. She has a fine calf and Mrs Kemp makes butter. It is agreed upon that I shall have the Mother viz The black Cow and her calf for my use. We mean to write Mr Pratt as well as yourself on this subject and what Mr Pratt or you Sir, may be pleased to charge, we shall be thankful and willing to pay. As you was jehased [?] to write me a letter permitting any person to have a Cow or two at a certain price. Accordingly_. Mr Bean, Mr Fairburn, Mr F Hall and myself have chosen one each from among the heifers you sent P Active last time. Please to charge the same to our respective accounts And now Dr Sir permit me to say, that it is my earnest prayer and fervent hope, that you are at this time in perfect health ^and happy in the bosom of your family; and your children like olive branches round about your table. May the candle of the Lord ever shine upon you, upon Mrs Marsden & upon your Children; May the Lord be unto you as the dew unto Israel and pour upon you the continual dew of his blessing. I doubt not, but that long in this, you have called your flock around the Lords Table again and again, and that he has met you there, and made himself “Known to you in breaking of bread,” and you have found the Lord Jesus precious to your souls. “Although absent in body I have been with you in spirit”, beseeching the Lord to ^grow [?] you many souls for your hive as seals to your ministry. Please to give my sincere respect to all friends, and greet them in my name. Mrs Butler joins with me in the sincerest love to yourself, Mrs Marsden and to all your family; and believe me to be Dear Sir, yours very To the Rev } affectionately John Butler Saml Marsden } Parramatta } PS I hope you will have the goodness to write me by every opportunity, and send me as many news papers as you can conveniently spare. Hocken Archive Reference Number MS-0057/032 36MB image/tif 6.0 Uncompressed MD5 0c70154d9158e837bb9781ad635aa090 ACEMC 2814 4524 RGB manuscript Hakena MS-0057/032 194 mm 319 mm 2014:04:09 16:00:48.60 University of Otago Library, Reprographics Unit digital still camera Canon Canon EOS 6D 11.0 1.3 Manual 0220 1.3 11.0 6.5 1.4 Multi-segment tungsten flash did not fire 50.0 mm (35 mm equivalent: 61.7 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 2014:04:17 13:16:41 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. 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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-0057/032 36MB image/tif 6.0 Uncompressed MD5 32a659c5abc1a11405ff0d0aba69d630 ACEMC 2790 4518 RGB manuscript Hakena MS-0057/032 194 mm 319 mm 2014:04:09 15:59:18.91 University of Otago Library, Reprographics Unit digital still camera Canon Canon EOS 6D 11.0 1.3 Manual 0220 1.3 11.0 6.5 1.4 Multi-segment tungsten flash did not fire 50.0 mm (35 mm equivalent: 61.9 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 2014:04:17 13:15:08 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