File 2: Rowland Hassall papers, 1811-1820, 1860

Hassall family papers, 1793-2000

Papers, being mainly letters received by Rowland Hassall and including some copies of letters sent and miscellaneous papers.

Papers include:

Letters received (36) from missionaries at Tahiti, 1811-1820, including Henry Nott, John Davies, William Pascoe Crook, Henry Bicknell, James Hayward, William Henry, William Ellis, Charles Barff, John Orsmond, and Lancelot Threlkeld; there are two letters from William Carey at Serampore, India; and a copy of a translation of a letter sent by King Pomare II to the missionaries discussing his conversion to Christianity.

Letters received (22) from Thomas Hassall, 1815-1820. Thomas Hassall departed for England in 1817 and his letters give details of his voyage, his contact with family and friends in England, his time at Lampeter College, Lampeter, Wales, studying for ordination; there are also copies of three letters sent to Thomas Hassall by Rowland Hassall.

Letter received, 1813, by Elizabeth Hassall from Mrs Nott at Tahiti, and a copy of a letter sent to Mrs Nott, 1813, by Elizabeth Hassall.

Paper 'Minutes of Proceedings of Monthly Meeting of Teachers belonging to the Parramatta & Branch Sunday Schools, Monday 14th April, 1817', signed by Samuel Otoo Hassall; manuscript and typescript copies of the last will and testament of Rowland Hassall, 1820; a letter sent to 'Mrs Chrystie and all the other sisters on board the Canada' by Matthew Wilks, n.d.; anecdotes concerning Sunday Schools in Parramatta probably written by Thomas Hassall, 1818; and two letters received by Thomas Hassall, 1860.

File 2: Rowland Hassall papers, 1811-1820, 1860

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