Letter: Reverend George Burder to Reverend Josiah Pratt, 30 October 1817
Reverend George Burder
University of Otago Library
Digitised from the Hocken LibraryCollection Number MS-0498/062
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Library of Congress Subject Headings
Letter
Maori Subject Headings
Reverend Josiah Pratt
30 October 1817
London, England
10 November 1817
British English
Hope
Conversation
Pitcairns island
New zealand
Marsden
Burder
Hope
Conversation
Missionary Rooms Old Jewryjewellery 30 Octr1817 Revd & dear Sir I beg leave to inform you that the Directors of the Missionary Society have resolved to send out a missionary to Pitcairn’s Island as soon as they can decide on a suitable person & find a proper mode of conveyance. If you should be sending out any to New Zealand, thro’through Mr Marsden, perhaps we might avail ourselves of that opportunity. I am Dr Sir Yrs Afflyaffectionately G. Burder P.S. I hope we shall not lose sight of the proposal formerly made— a meeting of the Secretgariessecretaries of the several Societies for friendly conversation— I lately mentioned it to Mr Marsden (Wesleyan) who much approves