Letter from Samuel Marsden to Joseph Butterworth, July 21st, 1823

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Marsden to Butterworth, Wesleyan Mission House.
PARRAMATTA,
July 21st, 1821.

Honoured Sir,

I have learned that it is the intention of the Committee of the Wesleyan Missionary Society to send one missionary to New Zealand…

As there are three great Missionary Societies in London, the C.M. Society, The London, and the Wesleyan Societies, it appears to me that it would be a wise and prudent measure for each Society to select their separate fields for their missionaries to labour in…. . New Zealand for the C.M.S.; the Friendly Islands for the Wesleyans; and the Society Islands for the London M.S.”

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Title: Letter from Samuel Marsden to Joseph Butterworth, July 21st, 1823

Author: Marsden, Samuel

Quoted in: Earliest New Zealand

Publication details: Masterton, 1927

Part of: New Zealand Texts Collection

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