University of Otago Library Letter: Reverend Edward Bickersteth to Reverend Samuel Marsden, 9 November 1818 Reverend Edward Bickersteth Author Reverend Samuel Marsden Receiver text Letter London, England 9 November 1818 Notes about where the letter was created: Church Missionary House, London eng text/html 316 x 192 mm 1 leaves 1 pages reformatted digital Hocken Collections' Title: CMS Assistant Secretary to Marsden Annotations: Copy; Rev. Richard Hill [sent by] Dwellings House Sir Mr Pratt Birmingham 52.490307,-1.889756 Rev Richd Hill Committees Committee New Zealand -41.244772,174.675751 John Butler Francis Hall James Kemp Missions, New Zealand New Zealand Mission Tooi Teeterree Health Health Climate Climate Hope Hope England 52.456009,-1.189957 Baring ship Lamb God God New Zealanders Gospel Otaheite -17.641405,-149.43213 Bickersteth Hocken Collections, University of Otago Library, Dunedin, New Zealand. http://www.marsdenarchive.otago.ac.nz/MS_0056_100 http://www.marsdenarchive.otago.ac.nz/MS_0056_100_001 http://www.marsdenarchive.otago.ac.nz/MS_0056_100_002 MS_0056_100 Trimble 100 CMS Number 120 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 2015-06-11T13:35:25+12:00 machine generated eng Letter: Reverend Edward Bickersteth to Reverend Samuel Marsden, 9 November 1818 Reverend Edward Bickersteth University of Otago Library Digitised from the Hocken Library Collection Number MS-0056/100 Trimble 100 CMS Number 120 Digitised by the Marsden Online Archive Library of Congress Subject Headings Letter Maori Subject Headings Reverend Samuel Marsden 9 November 1818 London, England British English Dwellings Committees Missions, New Zealand Health Climate Hope God House Pratt Birmingham Richd hill Committee New zealand John Butler Francis Hall James Kemp New zealand mission Tooi Teeterree Health Climate Hope England Baring Lamb God New zealanders Gospel Otaheite Bickersteth Church Missionary House London, Nov. November 9/[18]18 My dear Sir, Mr Pratt being obliged to go to Birmingham this evening, I write a few lines by the Rev. Richd Hill. We have just had a full Committee Meeting this day for dismissing a fresh body of labourers to New Zealand. Their names are as under The Rev. John, & Mrs Butler, their Son, & a child Mr Francis Hall, a truly good man, Mr James & Mrs Kemp, he is a Blacksmith & has an excellent spirit Mr Butler is an able, solid man, calculated to be at the head of the New Zealand Mission. With them the Committee took leave also of Tooi & Teeterree. Their behaviour & character have won the hearts of all. They have now lived with me several Months in the Society’s Society's House, & I never saw any impropriety in their conduct, rather quite the reverse. We have had considerable difficulty in preserving their health & fear that this colder climate has seriously injured it. We hope that the whole Company consisting of nine persons will leave England in about a Month in the Ship Baring, Capt. Captain Lamb. May the blessing of our God go with them & through His mercy may the New Zealanders embrace the Gospel nationally & generally as they have done in Otaheite. Time will not allow me to say more, I am, Ever faithfully & affectionately yours (Signed) E. Bickersteth Hocken Archive Reference Number MS-0056/100 37MB image/tif 6.0 Uncompressed MD5 40892da0efe6e3af9e4d26dc57b69814 ACEMC 2838 4596 RGB manuscript Hakena MS-0056/100 192 mm 316 mm 2014:04:02 11:29:32.56 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: 60.9 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 2014:04:08 10:25:25 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