Marsden's Lieutenants - FIRST EDITION 196/1000 By: J. R. Elder Good condition - no dustcover - some discolouring on the pages in the photos FOREWORD The publication of Marsden’s Lieutenants makes available to all who are interested in New Zealand history a further instalment of the rich treasures to be found in the library bequeathed by the late Dr. Hocken to the University of Otago. It was my good fortune to know Dr. Hocken and to spend some pleasant evenings with him while he brought down from his shelves for inspection many of the books, pamphlets, and manuscripts which he had collected during many years with tireless energy and passionate enthusiasm. I have good reason, therefore, to know how much it would have gratified Dr. Hocken to find that as years go by the value of his collection is being increasingly appreciated, and that a widening circle of people both in New Zealand and overseas, are being led to realize the unique importance of his magnificent gift. The Letters and Journals of Samuel Marsden, which were edited last year with such scholarly care and skill by Professor Elder, provided a rich feast not merely for the student of history but also for the general reader. The present volume will also prove of absorbing human interest, as it gives to the public for the firs time the strange and dramatic story of the three missionary agents placed by Marsden in the Bay of Islands on his first visit to New Zealand May one express the hope that the issue of this volume will arouse such widespread interest as to facilitate and expedite the publication of more items from the wealth of material which is at present accessible only to those who have sufficient time and opportunity to visit the Hocken Library in Person?

Edited by John Rawson Elder, M.A, D. Litt (Abdn) Professor of History in the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. Formerly Lecturer in British History in the University of Aberdeen.