Parramatta July 18th 1821
Dear Sir,
	I received your Account current Yesterday from Mr Campbell which amounts to about £200 Sterg. I feel it my duty to call upon you to state what your final determination is respecting the Mission— The Society will expect me to give, as Agent some satisfactory reason for drawing upon them for the above Sum— The Sydney Gazettes are regularly sent to the Committee your name will appear twice advertised for leaving the Colony; and each time a passage has been provided for you, the Committee will think it strange you did not proceed to the place of your destination, more especially when Mr Kendall went to New Zealand— If you do not feel a warm desire to promote the good of the Mission [f] amidst difficulties and Privations you will never be truly comfortable in the work— A Missionary must be prepared to meet every difficulty, to submit to every Privation, and to bear his cross wherever his duty calls— If you wish to continue any longer in the Mission you must make up your mind to join the mission the first opportunity, and while you remain here you must think of doing something or other if you can to lessen the Expences to the Society— I feel confident the Society will not be very well satisfied with me as their Agent that I have not urged you more strongly to proceed to your work— I think you must be fully persuaded, that something should be done to satisfy the mind of the Committee, that you are acting according to your Engagement with the Society— I doubt not after [f] what I have said, but you will see the necessity of coming to some decision upon the point
I remain
yours truly
(Signed) Saml Marsden
Mr John Cowell
(True Copy) John Cowell
(Received 17 January 1822)