1840/41: A letter from Glasgow, Scotland carried privately to the Reverend Nisbet, "Missionary S Sea Islands". Our present knowledge: this is possibly the first letter to the New Hebrides.
Dated Glasgow 13 October 1840 - it could have arrived in the New Hebrides end of March 1841.

1840/41
(unknown coll.)

1841: Our present knowledge: this is possibly the first postally carried letter to the New Hebrides.
Cancelled London 24 DE 1840 and Sydney MY 19 1841.
image thanks to "Timbroscopie", June 1991.

1841
(Millet coll.)

1841: Carried on the BENCOOLEN ex London 8 January 1841. Arrived Sydney 13 May, forwarded to Tanna, New Hebrides, by Missionary schooner. Eightpence paid in UK, threepence inward ship letter due in Sydney.

1841
("SeSi" coll.)

1841: Another letter to Reverend Nisbet in the New Hebrides. Too late for the ship mentioned above - arrived more than two weeks later in Sydney.
Cancelled London 11 JA 1841 and Sydney MY 31 1841.

"On Monday, the 10th of August, 1840, I received commission from the Directors of the London Missionary Society, and on the following day sailed from Gravesend. The instructions of the REV. H. NISBET and myself were to proceed to Sydney, there to join the missionary brigg 'Camden', and to make all practicable haste to commence a mission on the island of Tanna, in the New Hebrides."
Page 1, lines 1-8 'Nineteen years in Polynesia' by Rev George Turner, LL.D., published 1861 by John Snow, London.
Nisbet and Turner were forced, by native aggression, to leave Tanna in January 1843.

1841
("JGI" coll.)

1841: Carried privately to Sydney and then supposedly with the Missionary schooner.
Dated Glasgow, 26 April 1841 - possibly arrived end of September.
(Address part darkened with computer to improve readability)

1841
("SeSi" coll.)

1842: entire from Glasgow to "Revd Henry Nisbet/Missionary/Tanna" without postal markings and apparently carried per favor. Ex Stanley Jersey coll.

1842
(March 2005 Prestige auction, 850 AUD)