Additional Clergymen for New South Wales circular with annotated letter from Reverend James Cotton Powell to Reverend Mr. Prior

MLMSS 11295

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1837

9664116

0.01 metres of textual material (1 folder)

The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG) was a Church of England missionary organisation founded in 1701 which sent Anglican clergymen and religious literature to the British colonies in the 18th and 19th centuries.

William Grant Broughton (1788-1853) was a Church of England bishop born in London who arrived in Sydney in 1829 to serve as Archdeacon of New South Wales and was consecrated as Bishop of Australiain 1836.

The Rev. James Cotton Powell (1809-1851) was Assistant Secretary of the SPG.

Reference
Library correspondence file

From the collection of Kenneth Athol Webster (1906-1967), a New Zealand-born dealer and collector in manuscripts, books, paintings and ethnographic artefacts relating to the Pacific.

Circular issued by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG), Trafalgar Square, May 8, 1837 in which the Bishop of Australia, William Grant Broughton, appeals for assistance in the recruitment of young divinity graduates from England due to a “critical shortage of clergymen in New South Wales”.
The circular was forwarded by SPG Assistant Secretary Rev. James Cotton Powell to the Rev. Mr. Prior, Poughill, Cornwall, and includes a handwritten letter from Powell urging Reverend Prior to apply for a chaplaincy in New South Wales.
The circular has been folded and addressed to Reverend Mr Prior, 5 December 1837 and has the remnants of a red wax seal.

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Stamped on verso in lower right: Webster Collection, and written in ink inside the stamp: 2618