Letterbook, 01 January 1840-11 August 1860

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Correspondents include:George Selwyn, Dandeson Coates, Reverend H. Cowper, Reverend George Clarke, missionaries of the Southern and Northern District, Reverend Henry Williams, Reverend Henry Venn, Reverend Octavius Hadfield, Reverend George Kissling, Seymour Spencer, Reverend Henry Williams, Reverend Charles Reay, Captain George Grey.

Subjects include: Church Missionary Society, Australasian matters, land purchases and disputes, social and family news, history of the mission in Northern District, money payments and limits on missionary expenditures, appointment of Protector of the Aborigines, prosecution of the Mission, relations between clerics and catechists, needs of schools and missionaries, grant of land for mission station at Hicks Bay, grants of land made by Maoris, miscommunications between members of the Mission, land claims of Church Missionary Society, Maori war and its implications for missionaries and policies on ordination.

Also includes papers of the Church Missionary Society such as resolutions and minutes around payments, land and New Zealand.

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