University of Otago Library Letter: Reverend Josiah Pratt to Governor of NSW Lachlan Macquarie, 5 September 1816 Reverend Josiah Pratt Author Governor of NSW Lachlan Macquarie Receiver text Letter London, England 5 September 1816 Notes about where the letter was created: Church Missionary House, London eng text/html 320 x 205 mm 1 leaves 1 pages reformatted digital Hocken Collections' Title: CMS Secretary to Governor MacQuarrie Annotations: Copy Dwellings House Sept 1816 Rev Samuel Marsden Committees Committee Robert Williams New Zealand -41.244772,174.675751 Church Missionary Society Excellency Josiah Pratt Macquarrie Governor Hocken Collections, University of Otago Library, Dunedin, New Zealand. http://www.marsdenarchive.otago.ac.nz/MS_0056_012 http://www.marsdenarchive.otago.ac.nz/MS_0056_012_001 http://www.marsdenarchive.otago.ac.nz/MS_0056_012_002 MS_0056_012 Trimble 12 CMS Number 12 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 2015-06-11T15:37:06+12:00 machine generated eng Letter: Reverend Josiah Pratt to Governor of NSW Lachlan Macquarie, 5 September 1816 Reverend Josiah Pratt University of Otago Library Digitised from the Hocken Library Collection Number MS-0056/012 Trimble 12 CMS Number 12 Digitised by the Marsden Online Archive Library of Congress Subject Headings Letter Maori Subject Headings Governor of NSW Lachlan Macquarie 5 September 1816 London, England British English Dwellings Committees House Sept 1816 Samuel Marsden Committee Robert Williams New zealand Church missionary society Josiah Pratt Macquarrie Church Missionary House London Sept. 5th 1816. Sir The Rev Samuel Marsden having mentioned to the Committee Robert Williams, a convict, as a man now of good character, and likely to do good service in instructing the Natives of New Zealand in rope making, if any mitigation of his sentence could be granted, I am directed by the Committee of the Church Missionary Society very respectfully to solicit the kind consideration of your Excellency on the subject; and, at the same time to express their sincere obligations for the aid which your Excellency has been pleased to render in various ways to the endeavours of the Society. I have the honour to be, With great respect, Your Excellency’s most Obedt obedient Servant (Signed) Josiah Pratt Secy to C M Society His Excellency Governor Macquarrie MS. 56/12 CMS Secretary Josiah Pratt to Governor Macquarrie Hocken Archive Reference Number MS-0056/012 27MB image/tif 6.0 Uncompressed MD5 ed85804bd36f442aa123b531bfd54654 ACEMC 2480 3839 RGB manuscript Hakena MS-0056/012 205 mm 320 mm 2014:01:30 10:54:18.78 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: 71.9 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 2014:03:10 13:12:43 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