Letter: Reverend Samuel Marsden to Reverend Josiah Pratt, 30 June 1815
Reverend Samuel Marsden
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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 obedtobedient Ser[van]t Saml Marsden NB. Williams is a Man of good Character-