University of Otago Library Letter: Reverend Samuel Marsden to Reverend Josiah Pratt, 30 June 1815 Reverend Samuel Marsden Author Reverend Josiah Pratt Receiver Sydney Packet The ship that sent the letter Sir William Bensley The ship that returned the reply text Letter New South Wales, Australia 30 June 1815 27 December 1815 22 January 1816 05 August 1816 Notes about where the letter was created: Sydney, New South Wales eng text/html 225 x 226 mm 1 leaves 1 pages reformatted digital Hocken Collections' Title: Marsden to CMS Secretary Sydney -33.861293,151.212645 June 30th 1815 Sir New Zealand -41.244772,174.675751 Flax Flax Colonies -- History Colony Robert Williams Plants Plant Robt Governor Honor Marsden Hocken Collections, University of Otago Library, Dunedin, New Zealand. http://www.marsdenarchive.otago.ac.nz/MS_0055_009 http://www.marsdenarchive.otago.ac.nz/MS_0055_009_001 http://www.marsdenarchive.otago.ac.nz/MS_0055_009_002 MS_0055_009 Trimble 9 CMS Number 79 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 2015-06-11T09:28:53+12:00 machine generated eng Letter: Reverend Samuel Marsden to Reverend Josiah Pratt, 30 June 1815 Reverend Samuel Marsden University of Otago Library Digitised from the Hocken Library Collection Number MS-0055/009 Trimble 9 CMS Number 79 Digitised by the Marsden Online Archive Library of Congress Subject Headings Letter Maori Subject Headings Reverend Josiah Pratt 30 June 1815 New South Wales, Australia Sydney Packet Sir William Bensley 27 December 1815 22 January 1816 British English Flax Colonies -- History Plants Sydney June 30th 1815 New zealand Flax Colony Robert Williams Plant Robt Honor Marsden Sydney June 30th 1815 Dear Sir I have sent a little of the New Zealand Flax dressed and wrought in this Colony by a Prisoner Robert Williams, who understands the working of this Plant well, which will appear from the Specimens I have sent now— I have to request the Society will have the Goodness to recommend Robt Williams to the kind Consideration of the Governor of this Colony, in order that he may obtain a mitigation of his Sentence by which he would be enabled to visit New Zealand, and instruct the natives in Rope making &c— I have the honor to be Dr Sir Your most obedt obedient Ser[van]t Saml Marsden NB. Williams is a Man of good Character- Hocken Archive Reference Number MS-0055/009 26MB image/tif 6.0 Uncompressed MD5 dd79cee811290e9161c3d7d79a3129f1 ACEMC 2910 3210 RGB manuscript Hakena MS-0055/009 226 mm 225 mm 2014:05:15 10:11:05.94 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: 75.9 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 12:09:06 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