Sydney, June 28th 1815
My dear Sir
	I merely send you this short note to inform you that I have sent two Boxes directed to your Care, or rather for you in the Sydney Packet. The largest contains various  Articles from New Zealand, and small one Letters and Papers for the Information of the Society— I hope you will receive them safe. The Box with the Letters are put in Charge of Mr Saml Foster, a Passanger on Board the Packet— and directed for you at the Missionary House Salisbury Square. I have to request you will on the arrival, of the Sydney Packet endeavour to obtain the Box under the care of Mr Foster, as it contains many Letters of Importance. I have entered the Box in the Ship’s manifest, (as we have no proper Post office here from whence any public Revenue is derived,) in hopes that it may come safe to Hand. I have also sent a few Spears such as are used by the New Zealanders in time of war— Should you get the Box, will [f] you have the Goodness to open the Covers, and send the Letters contained in them to the Post office, if they should not be taken out at the Custom House.
I am
Dr Sir
Yours very sincerely
Saml Marsden
Revd J. Pratt