University of Otago Library Letter: Reverend Edward Bickersteth and Reverend Josiah Pratt to John King, 12 March 1818 Reverend Edward Bickersteth Author Reverend Josiah Pratt Author John King 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 1 leaves 1 pages reformatted digital Hocken Collections' Title: CMS Secretary to John King Annotations: Copy; Duplicate sent June /18 Dwellings House London 51.513016,-0.127931 Sir Mr Wilson Marsden Hall Decr Committees Committee Hope Hope Peace Peace Port Jackson -36.61458,175.44906 Christians New Zealanders Judge Kendall Englishmen Josiah Pratt Bickersteth Hocken Collections, University of Otago Library, Dunedin, New Zealand. http://www.marsdenarchive.otago.ac.nz/MS_0056_078 http://www.marsdenarchive.otago.ac.nz/MS_0056_078_001 http://www.marsdenarchive.otago.ac.nz/MS_0056_078_002 MS_0056_078 Trimble 78 CMS Number 97 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 2015-06-11T12:36:12+12:00 machine generated eng Letter: Reverend Edward Bickersteth and Reverend Josiah Pratt to John King, 12 March 1818 Reverend Edward Bickersteth and Reverend Josiah Pratt University of Otago Library Digitised from the Hocken Library Collection Number MS-0056/078 Trimble 78 CMS Number 97 Digitised by the Marsden Online Archive Library of Congress Subject Headings Letter Maori Subject Headings John King 12 March 1818 London, England Isabella British English Dwellings Committees Hope Peace House London Wilson Marsden Hall Decr Committee Hope Peace Port jackson Christians New zealanders Kendall Englishmen Josiah Pratt Bickersteth Church Missionary House, London, March 12/18 My dear Sir We have received your letters; one to myself, the other to Mr Wilson, dated Nov November 12/17. We are grieved to hear of your various difficulties, & not less so to find that you accuse Mr Marsden of misrepresentations. Be assured that true humility will ever lead you to distrust & condemn yourself rather than others. Mr Marsden sent us a copy of his letter to you & Mr Hall, dated Decr 7/16. The Committee entirely concur with Mr Marsden in the sentiments of that letter, & wish you to consider it as coming from them. We hope, however, that it may have had such influence on you, as to lead you to union & peace with your brethren. Neither your letter to me nor to Mr Wilson, at all satisfied the Committee. It does not appear to us that you are zealously exerting yourself, as you should be, in promoting the objects of the Society. You must entirely conform to Mr Marsden’s directions; or return to Port Jackson & provide for yourself, independently of the Society. Consider, we beseech you, that you are maintained, at a great expence, by Christians here, for the sole object of doing good to the New Zealanders, & promoting the cause of Christ among them; & yet you dishonour the cause by unchristian conduct. We judge from your own letters, Mr Kendall has not complained of you, as you evidently do of him. We hope, however, better things of you hereafter. Consider what a field of labour you have before you. 50 Englishmen have applied, in the last year, to be sent to labour among the Heathen, & have been declined, for want of funds. Judge from this whether we can be justified, in retaining those who will not zealously exert themselves in promoting the cause of our Lord. We are, Dear Sir, Affec[tionate]ly yours, (Signed) Josiah Pratt Edward Bickersteth Hocken Archive Reference Number MS-0056/078 36MB image/tif 6.0 Uncompressed MD5 f443f1a9df901297ce6c7314e098f214 ACEMC 2760 4566 RGB manuscript Hakena MS-0056/078 202 mm 321 mm 2014:04:02 08:28:34.09 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: 61.6 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 09:43:13 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