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[MS 16]

and administer to you thro' our medium the assistance which
the prosecution of your labours in this way may require
ever therefore commend you to God who is able to keep you
from falling, and admonish you that great temptations -
difficulties and dangers must necessarily await you in this
work  You did not enter into it in search of ease & Competance
 but you embraced it in the contemplation of trials and the
probability of Death - the Martyrs Cross as well as crown was
placed before you, and you were taught that if you sealed your
testimony with your blood, it would be the occasion of your
everlasting triumph, which on the other hand unfaithfullness
[indecipherable]  accompanied with awkward prosperity which
be of all calamity the [indecipherable]  to the [indecipherable]

By order of the Directors
Thos Haweis
Joseph Hardcastle
John Eyre

Society to Missionaries
At Port Jackson
London Sept. 3. 1799

[MS17]

                                                     London Sep. 3 .99.
My dear Madam,

Notwithstanding you will receive a letter from the My  Society by this conveyance I cannot forbear in a private capacity dropping you a line and by the same Means forward you for common use the magazines, by which you will learn what we have been doing since you left England. Before this reaches you the Hillsborough, who carried Dr Van der Kemp & brethren to the Cape, will have informed you of the re equipment of the Duff under capt Robson, and of her having sailed in company almost to Madiera.  But on just entering the Harbour of Rio Janiero she was captured by the French. In the Number of these missionaries was my daughter Mary married & going to reside with her husband Mr. Vardy (at Otaheite) who had been attending to missionaries. When the news of this disaster reached England it is not easy to conceive the afflictive impulse it gave to the religious friends who flew to repair

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