India House
Augt 16th  [1817]
Dear Sir
	A Gentleman of this House has express’d so kind an interest about the Colony on Pitcairns Island wishing the Missionary Society to attend to this case, that I cannot help mentioning it to you. I do this the rather because I have heard it lately positively asserted that the people on this Island cannot read. If this is the fact they may be expected to degenerate after the death [f] of their present head, and it may be the more proper to provide for such a Contingency because otherwise the Island may be visited or rather invaded by persons of a very different description than those who would be sent by the Missy Society, to the ruin of the simple Inhabitants.
I remain Dear Sir Sincerely
Your very obedt St
Cha Grant
Revd J. Pratt