State Library of NSW
166 Mr Hassall Parramatta New South Wales
received 8th Nov 1807
[MS 167]
Otaheite 12th June 1807
Dear brother We have received your letter dated Febry 12 1807 which we perceive was written previous to the reception of ours by the Hawksbury Sloop, but the we have received no answer to that, yet we do not doubt your readiness to serve us. We have news to acquaint you with some other things, by which you might probably under considerable service to the Mission[ Life. With this conveyance br Youllin tends to pay you a visit, his purpose is to see, whether he can obtain a suitable position in the Colony, if he succeeds, he intends to join us again, if not probably he will proceed to England; in either case he will want some pecuniary assistance. We understand that when the Revd. Mr Marsden left the Colony that he made Mr Campbell his agent, as to the Society's affairs, of this however we have received no official account, but had it been otherwise we doubt the propriety of the Agents applying to him on the present cases. It is our wish therefore that you if convenient, would assist him on the Missionary Society's account, and we have given him directions accordingly. Also we wish you would give him such advice in the present business, as your long acquaintance with the Colony enables you. Moreover in respect to [?br Crook & family who now wish to join us, we would submit it to your consideration whether any measures can be adopted to relieve them from their present embarassments, so that they may be at liberty, if no discouragement from England prevents to embrace the first opportunity of coming to us. The addition of a suitable family we look upon as a thing of no small consequence to the Mission & therefore we would be very sorry if there are [indecipherable] [indecipherable] [indecipherable] [indecipherable] proceeding to their original destination. Mr Crook & family [indecipherable] safe here and debt ought ? be paid by the Missionary Society and are [indecipherable] [indecipherable] [indecipherable] might [indecipherable] [indecipherable] be paid by the Society also, since they were contracted as far as we understand not through idleness or extravagance, but thro the concurrence of several circumstances
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