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Includes letters from:
Frederick Miller, Hobart (fragment only) - plea for missionary ship to call at Hobart Town en route (as the Wesleyans do) to raise interest
joint letter from Thomas Slatyer, William Harbutt, Henry Dickson and George Drummond, Sydney
John Saunders, Sydney (temporary agent) - asks instructions on attitude to Catholic presence on South Sea islands; prophecy of Papua mission; Samoan teachers staying in Sydney being taught trades; death of Henry Dickson; enclosed letter from George Blaxland explaining Erromangans' hostility to missionary party; reasoned suggestion for Solomon Islands as mission field in Western Polynesia; story of contacts with Solomon Islands; arrival of Robert Ross (new agent); extract re evangelizing the whole Pacific
William Harbutt, Sydney
Thomas Slatyer, Sydney
Captain Robert Morgan, Sydney - some bones of John Williams and John Harris recovered, and buried at Apia
Robert Ross, Sydney - teachers left at Tanna and Erromanga; juvenile auxiliary association formed
John Edye Manning, Sydney - Supreme Court, releasing assets of John Harris's estate
Lancelot Threlkeld, Ebenezer, Lake Macquarie
George Griffin, Adelaide
Henry Nott, Sydney
George Drummond, Sydney
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