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Letter: Reverend Samuel Marsden to Reverend John Butler, 12 January 1820
Reverend
Samuel
Marsden
Author
Reverend
John
Butler
Receiver
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Letter
New South Wales, Australia
12 January 1820
Notes about where the letter was created: Parramatta, New South Wales
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Hocken Collections' Title: Marsden to John Butler
Parramatta
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Jany
1820
Sir
The Active
ship
Port Jackson
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Children
Children
Life
Life
Labors
New Zealanders
God
God
Hope
Hope
Samuel
Colonies -- History
Colony
Governor
Dwellings
House
England
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War
Fight
Prisoners
Prisoners
Honor
Perseverance
ship
Missions
Mission
Mrs
Gordon
Sydney
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Commissioner
Political science
Government
James Shepherd
Temmarangha
Horses
Horses
Butler
Marsden
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Letter: Reverend Samuel Marsden to Reverend John Butler, 12 January 1820
Reverend Samuel Marsden
University of Otago Library
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Collection Number MS-0057/011
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Library of Congress Subject Headings
Letter
Maori Subject Headings
Reverend John Butler
12 January 1820
New South Wales, Australia
British English
Children
Life
God
Hope
Colonies -- History
Dwellings
War
Prisoners
Missions
Political science
Horses
Parramatta
Jany
1820
The active
Port jackson
Children
Life
Labors
New zealanders
God
Hope
Samuel
Colony
House
England
Fight
Prisoners
Honor
Perseverance
Mission
Gordon
Sydney
Government
James shepherd
Temmarangha
Horses
Butler
Marsden
Parramatta
Jany 12
–
1820
My very dear Sir
I have the pleasure to inform you that we had a fine Passage in the Active to Port Jackson where I found all my Family well, and daughters shortly after at the Lord's Table. I had suffered much anguish of mind when at N. Zealand at the very horrid Idea which some entertained of my Children
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my spirits were more wounded than at any thing I had met with in Life. They devote their time to instruct the ignorant and to guide the poor wanderer
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No wicked Insinuations will ever cause me to relinquish my Labors for the good of New Zealanders
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and I bless God that he has favoured me with such a feeling
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which I hope will attend me to the Grave. Your Son Samuel is very steady
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and behaves well. I think his visit to Parramatta will be of real Service to him
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He has no Companions to lead him wrong
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and he sees none but the best of Characters this Colony affords
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I think you will find him more inclined to do all you wish when he returns to you
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He is just treated as if he was my own Son
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and is under no painful restraint
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and free from Care
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and will do well I have no doubt
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With respect to myself I can say but little as yet
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I have not seen the Governor since my return, nor am likely to see him. How matters will end I cannot tell as yet
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but I think I shall carry my Point
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Our difference
is now before the House of Commons
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The whole State of the Colony will now come before the House. I think the Governor will not remain long in the Colony. Whether I shall return to England or not is yet uncertain but I rather think that I shall remain where I am. Several members of the House of Commons have warmly espoused my Cause, and have pledged themselves to see justice done to my Character
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The Governor must be very angry. What will be done I cannot tell as yet
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No doubt every attempt will be tried to do me all the injury possible
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I have determined to maintain the Contest unto the End
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The Foundation upon which I stand is truth and I only have to maintain my ground, and not to be driven from my Post by any attacks and then I must conquer
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I may have hard to fight
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we are expecting arrivals from England every day, when I shall know more. I think it possible two King's Ships will come out, and after they have landed their Prisoners will visit New Zealand for Spars
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If they do I shall visit you again if I can obtain Permission
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and see how you are going on. I hope you will go on well
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Always bear in mind the importance of the work in which you are engaged, and what an Honor you enjoy
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You cannot magnify your office too
much, nor think too highly of your Situation as an Ambassador to the Heathen. Much will depend upon your wisdom, Patience Perseverance and I hope you will possess all these virtues. You know well what a State the Mission was in when we first arrived
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when I saw what those sent out to instruct the Heathen were doing my very Soul was pained within me
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I trembled for the Consequences. Their Sin appeared exceeding great to me and I did think then, and have thought since that if God intended to be merciful unto them he would bring them into some Affliction
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When Mrs Gordon's Father called upon me (who is a pious man) after my arrival at Parramatta before he saw his daughter I told him Mr Gordon had neglected his duty, and I feared on that account he would have some heavy affliction
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The next news I heard Mrs Gordon died at Sydney
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None of them saw their Conduct in the same Light as I did
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They appeared to be stupid and insensible
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Mr King I think will sooner or later also be convinced of his Error
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I hope he will continue now to do what is right, and not fall again into the Snare of the devil
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I do expect the Society will take very serious notice of his Conduct
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It will give me the greatest Gratification to find you all go on well, and that the work prospers in your Hands
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The Field is open for your Labors, and you must succeed in the End
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I have had repeated Conversations with the Commissioner respecting
New Zealand
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and I hope
Government will attend to it when the present Powers that be are removed
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I shall embrace every opportunity to promote the Interest of the Country you live in, so that you may depend at all times upon my Support
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while I remain in this Colony
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I hope my difficulties will be less than what they have been in time
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I have sent over Mr James Shepherd to live with Temmarangha and his Party. You will give him all the aid you can in building him a little House &c. He is well acquainted with Gardening, graf[t]ing Trees &c &c, so that he will be very useful in all these respects. I will send him some assistance as soon as I can
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Should the Kings Ships come I will try to send the Horses &c
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You will be so good as to give our kind Respects to Mrs Butler
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She will be gratified to know that her Son is well and goes on well
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I think he will now be weaned, and when he comes back again, she will not regret that he came with me, as he will be more likely to be a comfort to her, than if he had never been from her
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I shall send the wheat &c &c in the Active
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I remain
Dr Sir
Yours affectionately
Saml Marsden
Revd J. Butler
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11.0
1.3
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11.0
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1.4
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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.
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University of Otago Library, Reprographics Unit
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Canon
Canon EOS
6D
11.0
1.3
Manual
0220
1.3
11.0
6.5
1.4
Multi-segment
tungsten
flash did not fire
50.0 mm (35 mm equivalent: 60.7 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
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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.
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