File 2: Hassall family, correspondence, volume 2, pp. 298-702, 1817-1826

Hassall family papers, 1793-2000

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Correspondence, being mainly letters received by Thomas Hassall, and including some letters sent. Letters received while Thomas Hassall was in England and Wales, 1817-1821, correspondents include H. Longford, R. Hall, Ann Williams, William Ellis, and various Sunday School students from Lampeter who express regret at Thomas Hassall's departure.

Letters received by Thomas Hassall, 1822-1826 (after return to Port Jackson). Includes letters from missionaries in Tahiti and New Zealand describing their work and local conditions, letters from family, and letters from friends and colleagues. Missionary correspondents include: James Shepherd, John Williams, George Clarke, and Thomas Kendall from New Zealand; William Pascoe Crook, Thomas Blossom, William Henry, and William Ellis from Tahiti; and Walter Lawry from Tonga. Family correspondents include Ann Hassall and Mary Cover Hassall. Other correspondents include: Reverend Richard Hill; Sarah Henry (2) from New Zealand; Samuel Marsden (2), one letter giving Thomas Hassall permission to 'pay your Address to my Daughter Ann', 1822; Reverend William Cowper; Mary Crook; Reverend Robert Cartwright; R. Mansfield, on behalf of teachers of the Parramatta Wesleyan Sunday School, 1822; James Meehan; and William Lawson.

Letters sent include manuscript copies and drafts of letters sent to Thomas Hancox, 1817, Samuel Marsden, 1822, and the Bishop of London, 1822.

Papers include a fragment of a journal of Thomas Hassall, 9 Sept 1817 to 1 June 1819, being manuscript pages of journal, recording details of Thomas Hassall's time outside Australia, pp. 303-348; a printed notice from the General Post-Office concerning posting of letters overseas, 1819; a vote of thanks from the Teachers of the Wesleyan Sunday School Union to Thomas Hassall, 1822; and an unsigned rough draft of report concerning the trial of three Aboriginal men (Foley, Dingangan and Burraya) at Port Macquarie, ca. 1824.

File 2: Hassall family, correspondence, volume 2, pp. 298-702, 1817-1826

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