University of Otago Library Letter: Reverend Edward Bickersteth and Reverend Josiah Pratt to Reverend Thomas Kendall, 12 March 1818 Reverend Edward Bickersteth Author Reverend Josiah Pratt Author Reverend Thomas Kendall Receiver Isabella The ship that sent the letter text Letter London, England 12 March 1818 Notes about where the letter was created: Church Missionary House, London eng text/html 321 x 202 mm 2 leaves 3 pages reformatted digital Hocken Collections' Title: CMS Secretary to Thomas Kendall Annotations: Copy; Duplicate sent June /18 Dwellings House London 51.513016,-0.127931 Sir 27th Tottenham ship July Aug Decr Mr Myers Basil Woodd Children Children Carlisle Committees Committee Land settlement Settlement Hope Hope Conversation Conversation Sabbath New Zealanders Books Book Tooi Teeterree Grammar Grammar Maori language Language Church Of England Lutheran Ordination Ordination English Clergy Clergymen Missions Mission God God Walter Hall August Irby 53.525717,-0.195721 Thomas Yarborough Smith Mason Great Grimsby 53.56723,-0.079072 Marsden New South Wales -31.16581,147.034149 Household supplies Provisions Patu Mere African Josiah Pratt Bickersteth Hocken Collections, University of Otago Library, Dunedin, New Zealand. http://www.marsdenarchive.otago.ac.nz/MS_0056_076 http://www.marsdenarchive.otago.ac.nz/MS_0056_076_001 http://www.marsdenarchive.otago.ac.nz/MS_0056_076_002 http://www.marsdenarchive.otago.ac.nz/MS_0056_076_003 http://www.marsdenarchive.otago.ac.nz/MS_0056_076_004 MS_0056_076 Trimble 76 CMS Number 95 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/). 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University of Otago Library 2015-06-11T13:16:52+12:00 machine generated eng Letter: Reverend Edward Bickersteth and Reverend Josiah Pratt to Reverend Thomas Kendall, 12 March 1818 Reverend Edward Bickersteth and Reverend Josiah Pratt University of Otago Library Digitised from the Hocken Library Collection Number MS-0056/076 Trimble 76 CMS Number 95 Digitised by the Marsden Online Archive Library of Congress Subject Headings Letter Maori Subject Headings Reverend Thomas Kendall 12 March 1818 London, England Isabella British English Dwellings Children Committees Land settlement Hope Conversation Books Grammar Maori language Ordination Clergy Missions God Authority Household supplies Patu House London 27th Tottenham July Aug Decr Myers Basil Woodd Children Carlisle Committee Settlement Hope Conversation Sabbath New zealanders Book Tooi Teeterree Grammar Language Church of england Lutheran Ordination English Clergymen Mission God Walter Hall August Irby Thomas Yarborough Smith Mason Great grimsby Authority Marsden New south wales Provisions Mere African Josiah Pratt Bickersteth Church Missionary House, London, March 12/[18]18 My dear Sir We wrote you on the 27th of Nov[ember], by the Tottenham; & have since received from you various Letters, dated July 29, Aug. 26, Oct. October 28, Nov November 6, 12, Decr 6/16, to myself a Letter dated Oct October 9/15 to Mr Myers, & another dated Oct October 16/16 to Mr Basil Woodd, with 5 monthly lists of the children. These dispatches have much gratified us. The view drawn by Mr Carlisle much interested & gratified the Committee. It gave us a better Idea of the Settlement than we could otherwise have had. We are convinced that the progress, by means of Schools, will be slow, & we are prepared for this. We hope, however, that, with the teaching of the children, you join, when you have opportunity, religious conversation with their Parents. We should be very glad to hear of any number of these attending your Sabbath— Worship. The New Zealanders first Book has greatly pleased us. Our Orientalist, Mr Lee, is making use of Tooi & Teeterree (who have recently arrived) to form a complete Grammar & Vocabulary of the New Zealand Language. Your book furnishes him with important assistance. We much approve of your plan of beginning to instruct the children first in their own language, as being the most likely way to interest them. When the grammar & Vocabulary & perhaps one of the Gospels, are finished, they will be a guide to you in all future acquisitions. Your sensible observations respecting the Church of England & Lutheran ordination pleased the Committee. We hope, by the close of next year, to send 2 or 3 English Clergymen, & several settlers with them, so that you may have the due administrations of the Sacraments, & a most important strengthening of the Mission. We are happy to hear that you find Mr Carlisle so useful an Assistant. You have indeed received many merciful deliverances. We join you in thanks to God for his goodness. Such unruly wicked men as Walter Hall, can never benefit a Mission. We are glad that he is gone away. May our God bless all your children, & may they be a seed to serve him in New Zealand! We are happy to find that you make memorandums of such things as appear in your occasional remarks, dated August 26/16. We received a Letter from your Brother Edw[ar]d, at Irby, in Decr last, stating that a Legacy of £81.19.6 from the late Mr Thomas Quickfall’s House Steward to Lord Yarborough, was in the Hands of Mr Smith, Stone Mason, Great Grimsby due to your wife. If you will send me an Authority to receive it, I will endeavour to obtain it for you. Your brother expresses his wish to join you, but, after what you say, & on mature consideration, we feel disposed to decline the proposal. Most of the things which you have requested in the dispatches just received, have been already sent you through Mr Marsden. Those which have not been sent, will be forwarded by any opportunity that offers. We can send nothing but the Dispatches by the present vessel. It is necessary for us to have only one Account, & that with Mr Marsden. He will send you the Goods which he receives from us, & we will supply him. We must leave with him, and our friends in New South Wales, the supply of provisions & other things, which it is necessary for you to have with your Salary. We are persuaded, on the one hand, that your object is not the accumulation or the mere enjoyment of this world’s good ; & we wish, on the other, that you should have not only what is requisite for the absolutely necessary expences expenses of yourself & family, but also for their comfortable Maintenance as far as is consistent with the good of the Mission & the just character of a charitable institution. But we have found considerable inconvenience from the Maintenance of our African children, & we trust that you will be careful to enter, as little as possible, into a plan which must involve the Society in an expence, which, though it may be small for each particular child, yet, when our Missions are encreased , and it becomes necessary on a large scale, will be very burdensome. We know that you have difficulties on both sides, but hope that you may, by degrees, be able to get the Parents to provide for their children. Do not understand us as wishing to cripple the Mission for want of necessary supplies; but as wishing to provide in the wisest way for its extention. Respecting our opinion of your character & usefulness, your mind may be quite easy. We are well convinced of the singleness of your heart in this cause: Nor have we heard any thing from any one, that would lead us to doubt your steady & judicious pursuit of the great object of the Society. Go on! & may the Lord prosper you! Is our wish & our prayer for you. You have, of course, communicated to Mr Marsden the unsuitable or bad character of the goods which he sent you. It is not likely that he had been imposed on; for it is most probable that he sent you the goods which he received from us. Write freely to him for all you wish. He has a great esteem for you, speaks highly of you, & he knows that we wish him to supply your wants of every kind. We sent you 3 Wigs by the last investment. We are, dear Sir, with earnest prayers for a blessing on you & your family and labours, ever affect[ionatel]y yours (Signed) Josiah Pratt Edward Bickersteth Hocken Archive Reference Number MS-0056/076 36MB image/tif 6.0 Uncompressed MD5 5e29adc42e6881c4230148f1eab1a07b ACEMC 2772 4572 RGB manuscript Hakena MS-0056/076 202 mm 321 mm 2014:04:02 08:25:01.12 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: 61.5 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 2014:04:08 09:42:17 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-0056/076 37MB image/tif 6.0 Uncompressed MD5 48ec2b7a643edf764ec848a82fe259e8 ACEMC 2868 4524 RGB manuscript Hakena MS-0056/076 202 mm 321 mm 2014:04:02 08:26:45.28 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: 61.4 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 2014:04:08 09:42:46 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-0056/076 35MB image/tif 6.0 Uncompressed MD5 c203908327aa10f79ebf54eaae207990 ACEMC 2742 4566 RGB manuscript Hakena MS-0056/076 202 mm 321 mm 2014:04:02 08:25:39.84 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: 61.7 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 2014:04:08 09:42:30 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