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[Envelope]

Mr Hassall
Parramatta
New South Wales

Received
8th Nov 1807 

[Letter]

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 tho we have received no answer to that,
yet we do not doubt your readiness to serve us. We have now
to acquaint you with some other things, by which you might
probably under considerable service to the Mission have. 
With this conveyance br Youl in tends to pay you a visit, his
purpose is to see, whether he can obtain a suitable partner in
the Colony, if he succeeds, he intends to join us again, if not pro-
bably 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 receiv-
ed no official account, but had it been otherwise we doubt
the propriety of the br. Youl's 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 acquaint-
ance 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 con-
sequence to the Mission & therefore we would be very sorry if they
are left by then [indecipherable] the Colony from proceeding
according is their original destination. Mr Crook & family
safe hereundoubtably would be paid by the Missionary Society
and we think their debts
might, & would be paid by the Society also, since they were con-
tracted as far as we understand not through idleness or extra-
vagance, but thro the concurrence of several circumstances