University of Otago Library Letter: Reverend Josiah Pratt to Reverend Thomas Kendall, 18 March 1814 Reverend Josiah Pratt Author Reverend Thomas Kendall Receiver text Letter London, England 18 March 1814 Notes about where the letter was created: Salisbury Square, London, England eng text/html 325 x 195 mm 1 leaves 2 pages reformatted digital Hocken Collections' Title: CMS Secretary to Thomas Kendall Annotations: Copy Dwellings House Salisbury Square 51.513417,-0.106112 Sir Land settlement Settlement Children Children God God Mr Marsden Messrs Hall Church Missionary Society Wales 52.133488,-3.780155 Planning Plans New Zealand -41.244772,174.675751 Judge William Hall John King Guard Josiah Pratt Christian Methodist 1813 Hocken Collections, University of Otago Library, Dunedin, New Zealand. http://www.marsdenarchive.otago.ac.nz/MS_0054_031 http://www.marsdenarchive.otago.ac.nz/MS_0054_031_001 http://www.marsdenarchive.otago.ac.nz/MS_0054_031_002 http://www.marsdenarchive.otago.ac.nz/MS_0054_031_003 MS_0054_031 Trimble 31 CMS Number 27 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 2015-06-11T11:17:00+12:00 machine generated eng Letter: Reverend Josiah Pratt to Reverend Thomas Kendall, 18 March 1814 Reverend Josiah Pratt University of Otago Library Digitised from the Hocken Library Collection Number MS-0054/031 Trimble 31 CMS Number 27 Digitised by the Marsden Online Archive Library of Congress Subject Headings Letter Maori Subject Headings Reverend Thomas Kendall 18 March 1814 London, England British English Dwellings Land settlement Children God Planning House Salisbury square Settlement Children God Marsden Hall Church missionary society Wales Plans New zealand William hall John king Guard Josiah Pratt Christian Methodist 1813 (Copy) Church Missionary House, Salisbury Square, March 18/14 Dear Sir We have several times heard from you with much pleasure, and were very glad to hear that you were so usefully employed on board. It will give us much satisfaction to hear of your safe arrival, and of your comfortable Settlement with your wife and children. You will learn by the books and tracts now sent how we are proceeding. God has greatly prospered our attempts to create an interest at home in the designs of the Society and this encourages us to believe that He will be pleased to open a way for us to extend his Kingdom. I have sent some complete Setts Sets of the Missionary Register to Mr. Marsden by this conveyance, lest any of the former should have miscarried. What I now send to you make up, with what I sent before, 50 Setts. Sets You will let Mr Marsden have what he may wish of them. A sett of a Weekly Paper, called the Moderator, is sent from the beginning of this year: and I shall lay by the future numbers, and send to you for your use and that of Messrs Hall & King. It grieves us much to hear that they do not seem willing to abide by Mr Marsden’s directions. I write to them on the subject. Mr. Marsden receives by this conveyance the request of our Comee Committee that he will promote the formation of a Church Missionary Society in N.S. Wales, to manage our concerns, and to promote our plans. To such a Society we shall give largely, and have authorized authorised Mr. Marsden to draw annually for a considerable sum on its formation. The prospects with respect to New Zealand are opening greatly before us, so far as we can judge of the matter. Wm. Hall ought to have followed Mr. Marsden’s directions, and to have gone thither. Do what you can, my good friend, to heal matters. They may think Mr. Marsden harsh with them: should even you think him so, yet recollect what I said to you earnestly when here; and consider who and what he is, and what a weight of service lies on him, and how needful that decisive character is to the discharge of his important duty. Bear and forbear in every thing. Help on good, and check evil, with all your might. “If it be possible, as much as lieth lies within you, live peaceably with all men.” I fear there is much obstinacy in William Hall, and perhaps not a little self-interest. I say this in entire confidence to you. If he and John King refuse to go to New Zealand, when the way is open, no blessing will attend them. Let me intreat you to guard against being influenced by any representations to the prejudice of Mr. Marsden or others. Be you a steady and determined peace-maker: and may God give you a persevering and growing zeal for the salvation of the heathen. I fear the love which Hall and King once seemed to have for the heathen is gone! I am ever Yours, with kind regards to your wife (signed) Josiah Pratt I have sent a sett of the Christian Guardian, the Evangelical Magazine, and the Methodist, from the beginning of 1813, I shall continue them for all your use. Hocken Archive Reference Number MS-0054/031 36MB image/tif 6.0 Uncompressed MD5 bbf7bdf129fb16287fa67fe3b060a8e2 ACEMC 2820 4506 RGB manuscript Hakena MS-0054/031 195 mm 325 mm 2014:05:14 11:39:16.08 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: 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 2014:05:20 09:15:19 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-0054/031 35MB image/tif 6.0 Uncompressed MD5 0f99933c05d521a915c4df4b6cd83364 ACEMC 2760 4518 RGB manuscript Hakena MS-0054/031 195 mm 325 mm 2014:05:14 11:39:41.00 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: 62.1 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 2014:05:20 09:15:35 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