Miscellaneous Papers, 1796-1817

 
Component identifier:
File Box 1
Content Summary:
The documents selected for filming mostly relate to the first two missionary voyages to Tahiti. They include the registration of the Duff (5 August 1796), the letter of instructions to Captain James Wilson (5 August 1796), letters of Joseph Hardcastle, Thomas Haweis and James Wilson, extracts from letters of missionaries and observations on the propriety of a second mission to the South Seas (August 1798), the report of a committee on the memorial of Thomas Haweis on sending a second party of missionaries to the South Seas (1 May 1899), instructions to the missionaries appointed to proceed on the Royal Admiral to the Pacific (draft), instructions to Captain Wilson, an indenture between the owners and master of the Duff and the East India Company (1799), the assignment of copyright in The voyage of the Duff to Thomas Chapman (21 March 1799) and drafts of letters to Samuel Marsden (31 August 1804), Thomas Hassall (September 1804) and Philip G. King (13 October 1804) about the Tahitian Mission. There are also later letters to Marsden.
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M635

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Parent Restrictions:
Available for access.
Parent Terms of Access:
Many of the records digitised as part of the AJCP are still in copyright. Readers wishing to publish or reproduce documents should seek permission, in the first instance, from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London..
Location of this collection:
Parkes Place
Canberra ACT 2600, Australia
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