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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. |
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1841: Our present knowledge: this is possibly the first postally carried letter to the New Hebrides. |
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Letter to Reverend Henry Nisbet in Tanna from his father in Glasgow written in November/December 1841.
Cancelled GLASGOW PAID N DEC 27 1841 in black, PAID SHIP LETTER LONDON 29 DE 29 1841 and
PAID 29 DE 29 1841 in red. |
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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.
"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 brig
'Camden', and to make all practicable haste to commence a mission on the island of Tanna, in the New Hebrides." |
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1841 |
1841: Carried privately to Sydney and then supposedly with the Missionary schooner. |
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1842: entire from Glasgow to "Revd Henry Nisbet/Missionary/Tanna" without postal markings and apparently carried per favor. Ex Stanley Jersey coll. |
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Reverend Thomas Slatyer, his wife and a child were passengers of the brig CAMDEN, Capt. Morgan, when she arrived at Sydney on 11 August 1842. This was the fourth
Melanesian voyage of the CAMDEN during which they brought Nisbet and Turner to Tanna on 30 June 1842. Departure there was on 8 July. Slatyer came to Sydney because of the
bad health of his wife so they couldn't stay longer at Tutuela (Navigator's Island). They were still in Sydney in January 1843.
The CAMDEN left Sydney on 29 September 1842 for Samoa. On her way she was intercepted by a ship which carried the mails to Tanna. Nisbet's diary tells us that
they received mails on 9 December. The ship possibly was the schooner "SAMUEL AND MARY", 126 tons, Capt. Turnbull, which left Tanna on 12 December and returned to
Sydeny on 23 December.
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