University of Otago Library Letter: Josiah Pratt to Reverend Basil Woodd, 24 March 1808 Josiah Pratt Author Reverend Basil Woodd Receiver text Letter 24 March 1808 eng text/html 225 x 185 mm 1 leaves 2 pages reformatted digital Scope and Content: This letter concerns activities of the CMS March 24th 1808 God God Mr Sierra Leone 8.50497,-11.77906 Missionaries Missionaries Senoos Indigenous peoples Native Marsden Land settlement Settlement New Zealand -41.244772,174.675751 African Sermons Sermon Bentinck 51.517249,-0.14995 Pratt Hocken Collections, University of Otago Library, Dunedin, New Zealand. http://www.marsdenarchive.otago.ac.nz/MS_0498_002 http://www.marsdenarchive.otago.ac.nz/MS_0498_002_001 http://www.marsdenarchive.otago.ac.nz/MS_0498_002_002 http://www.marsdenarchive.otago.ac.nz/MS_0498_002_003 MS_0498_002 CMS Number 95 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 2015-06-11T13:45:55+12:00 machine generated eng Letter: Josiah Pratt to Reverend Basil Woodd, 24 March 1808 Josiah Pratt University of Otago Library Digitised from the Hocken Library Collection Number MS-0498/002 CMS Number 95 Digitised by the Marsden Online Archive Library of Congress Subject Headings Letter Maori Subject Headings Reverend Basil Woodd 24 March 1808 British English God Missionaries Indigenous peoples Land settlement Sermons March 24th 1808 God Sierra leone Missionaries Senoos Native Marsden Settlement New zealand African Sermon Bentinck Pratt March 24th 1808 Dear Brother Having to do with such an honourable man as yourself, it never entered into my head that you ought to be reminded of the annual return of your season of Benevolence. You want to know what you can say. I answer that the Society is “nobly” passive, till God opens the way for being “nobly active”: but, in the mean time, is proceeding surely. I send you the last Circular Letter, lest you should not have seen it: and also Mr Scott’s account of the four students under his care. Of this last you will make what you think prudent, and then return it to me. We are in daily expectation of advices advice from Sierra Leone that the Four Missionaries there are actually settled among the Senoos, or some other native Tribe. Mr Marsden will, next meeting, bring before us a proposal to establish a settlement in New Zealand, both the islands of which country contain, it is supposed, 500,000 people. The African Institute and the Abolition of the Slave Trade contribute to render that part of Africa to which our present attention is turned particularly interesting. And I think we may be considered to have made some serious advance and laid firm foundations of future usefulness, in having fixed in Africa four Ministers, and having four others so promising training under such a good guide. I think I have given you points for a sermon, which in your hands, will produce us the usual round sum from Bentinck. I return the Advertisement, seeing no occasion to alter it. As to my preaching one of the sermons, that is out of the question as I have no idea of acting as a foil to you, and begging £10 out of the hundred, while the other £90 is reserved for you. With kind regards, Believe me, Ever yours, J. Pratt Hocken Archive Reference Number MS-0498/002 23MB image/tif 6.0 Uncompressed MD5 efc0c50f5678f1ac25ba3956dbdb0ab9 ACEMC 2616 3150 RGB manuscript Hakena MS-0498/002 185 mm 225 mm 2014:05:02 08:32:20.15 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: 80.3 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 2014:05:06 09:53:07 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-0498/002 23MB image/tif 6.0 Uncompressed MD5 b1528d0bc8af0786c992db96925757ee ACEMC 2592 3138 RGB manuscript Hakena MS-0498/002 185 mm 225 mm 2014:05:02 08:32:06.49 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: 80.8 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 2014:05:06 09:52:53 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