• Title
  W. H. Brown - Circular letter received from the London Missionary Society, 23 August 1799
• Creator
  W. H. Brown
• Call number
  MLMSS 7125/Box 1X
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1799
• Type of material
  Textual Records
• Reference code
  420885
• Issue Copy
  Microfilm : CY 4211, frames 1-10 (MLMSS 7125)
  
• Physical Description
  0.16 metres of textual material (1 outsize box)
  Textual Records
  Textual Records - (printed)
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  In 1796 the Missionary Society, later called the London Missionary Society, purchased the ship 'Duff' to take missionaries to the South Seas. The ship arrived in Tahiti in 1797. The following year a group of missionaries, including Rowland Hassall and his family, decided that it was unsafe to remain in Tahiti. They were taken to Sydney by Captain Charles Bishop on the 'Nautilus'. On its second voyage in 1799 the 'Duff' was captured by a French privateer.
• Scope and Content
  Circular letter issued by the Missionary Society giving the first news to reach England of the abandonment of the Tahitian mission in 1798. Printed by T. Gillet for T. Chapman. The newsletter comprises 3 pages of printed text, with the fourth page addressed in manuscript to W. H. Brown of St George's Fields. The circular reproduces four letters concerning the Tahitian mission, and one from Buenos Aires regarding the capture of the 'Duff'.
• Finding Aids
  Read the transcription here: archival-classic.sl.nsw.gov.au/_transcript/2017/D00007/a309.html
• General note
  
  Digital order no: Album ID : 823898
• Creator/Author/Artist
  London Missionary Society
  
• Name
  Bishop, Charles, 1765?-1810
  Duff (Ship)
  Hassall family
  Nautilus (Ship)
  
• Subject
  Missionaries--Tahiti.
  Missions, English--Oceania.
  
• Place
  Tahiti (French Polynesia : Island).
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3150887

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