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RECORD: Subscriptions for the purpose of erecting a church at Kororarika. CUL-DAR262.25.3-12. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 9.2023. RN1

NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR262.25 contains letters and List of Subscriptions for the purpose of erecting a church at Kororarika, N.Z. 30 March 1841.

"Kororareka [Russell], Town on Bay of Islands, New Zealand. 1835 "Capt. FitzRoy, Mr Charles Darwin and the Officers of H.M.S. 'Beagle' 15.0.0" subscription to building fund for the chapel there. Manuscript subscription list 1834-41, at Russell Centennial Museum. 1836 "Placing a church at the headquarters of iniquity, at such a notorious place as Kororadika (the older spelling), is certainly a bold trial... This little village is the very stronghold of vice". "Moral state of Tahiti" p. 231. (Shorter publications, F1640) 1844 Renamed "Russell". 1873 Chapel renamed Christ Church." (Paul van Helvert & John van Wyhe, Darwin: A Companion, 2021).

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Subscriptions for the purpose of erecting a ~~chapel~~ Church at Kororarika for the benefit of Europeans & Natives to be 40 50 feet by 20 30