University of Otago Library Letter: R.A. Nelson to Reverend Josiah Pratt, 6 April 1819 R.A. Nelson Author Reverend Josiah Pratt Receiver text Letter London, England 6 April 1819 12 April 1819 Notes about where the letter was created: Navy Office, London eng text/html 321 x 202 mm 1 leaves 1 pages reformatted digital Letter was sent to London, England Notes about the destination address: Salisbury Square, London, England Hocken Collections' Title: R.A. Nelson to CMS Secretary Navies Navy April 1819 New Zealand -41.244772,174.675751 Flax Flax Admiral East Indies 25.324167,74.328003 Hemp Hemp Sir Josiah Pratt Committees Committee Church Missionary Society Salisbury Square 51.513417,-0.106112 Hocken Collections, University of Otago Library, Dunedin, New Zealand. http://www.marsdenarchive.otago.ac.nz/MS_0056_148 http://www.marsdenarchive.otago.ac.nz/MS_0056_148_001 http://www.marsdenarchive.otago.ac.nz/MS_0056_148_002 MS_0056_148 Trimble 148 CMS Number 165 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 2015-06-11T15:20:06+12:00 machine generated eng Letter: R.A. Nelson to Reverend Josiah Pratt, 6 April 1819 R.A. Nelson University of Otago Library Digitised from the Hocken Library Collection Number MS-0056/148 Trimble 148 CMS Number 165 Digitised by the Marsden Online Archive Library of Congress Subject Headings Letter Maori Subject Headings Reverend Josiah Pratt 6 April 1819 London, England London, England 12 April 1819 British English Navies Flax Hemp Committees Navy April 1819 New zealand Flax East indies Hemp Josiah Pratt Committee Church missionary society Salisbury square Navy Office 6th. April 1819, Sir./ I have laid before the Commissioners of the Navy your letter of the 1st. instant; and am commanded to acquaint you, that they have already made satisfactory trials of Rope manufactured from some samples of New Zealand Flax with which they had been furnished, and that in consequence thereof the Admiral Commanding in Chief in the East Indies has received Instructions to encourage the growth of New Zealand Hemp by procuring Rope manufactured therefrom for the use of his Squadron. I am Sir Your humble Servant, R. A. Nelson Revd. Josiah Pratt Secretary to the Committee of the Church Missionary Society Salisbury Square./ Hocken Archive Reference Number MS-0056/148 38MB image/tif 6.0 Uncompressed MD5 a1592478143e5730d690884f856aa9a4 ACEMC 2868 4632 RGB manuscript Hakena MS-0056/148 202 mm 321 mm 2014:04:03 10:07:57.86 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: 60.4 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 12:02:04 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