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25 July 1844 – Father Jérôme Grange to Father Victor Poupinel, Tonga
Based on the original sent, APM OC 208 (Tonga), Grange.
A leaf of “Bath” paper, measuring 216 mm × 165 mm and comprising two pages. The recto bears the text; the verso bears only Poupinel’s annotation. Although there is neither an address nor a salutation, the recipient can be identified as Poupinel from the contents of the letter, which concerns items requested for the mission.
Translated by Merv Duffy and ChatGPT, September 2026
[p. 2]
[In Poupinel’s hand:] Central Oceania - Tonga, 25 July 1844 - Father Grange
[p. 1]
- [1]
- The fathers who are directly responsible for the mission’s expenses will ask you for what it needs, but here is what I believe I may ask you for:
- [2]
- 1º A waffle iron, very useful. - A few pairs of strong-prescription spectacles, very useful for the natives. - A large quantity of Paris wire nails and nails of different sizes, very useful. - Tobacco and a snuffbox, necessary. - Flannel waistcoats, necessary. - Agricultural implements, very useful. - A pair of bronzed or velvet shoes for ascending to the altar, very useful. A pair of good razors, necessary. - Two pairs of small wheels with their iron axles, for a handcart,[1] very useful. - A little good chocolate, if you consider it appropriate; I believe it necessary. - Two wheels with an axle for a wheelbarrow.[2] - Some deerskin.[3] - Filler’s dictionary in French - Amicable Discussion; Cobbett’s Reformation Letters[4] - Vindication[5] of the Religious and Civil Principles of the Irish Catholics; Letters on the State of Education in Ireland and on the Bible Societies. In English, of course; very useful. - English Bibles, one Catholic and one Protestant, very useful. (All bound.) The continuation of the ecclesiastical history from 1815 to the present day.
Grange, Apostolic Missionary
Priest of the Society of Mary
- Tonga, 25 July 1844
Notes
- ↑ Source note b: “for a handcart” is written above the line.
- ↑ Source note 1: The manuscript reads broatte; read brouette (“wheelbarrow”).
- ↑ Source note 2: The manuscript reads peau d’ain; read peau de daim (“deerskin”).
- ↑ Source note 3: William Cobbett, author of Letters on the History of the Reformation in England and Ireland, new translation (2 vols.). Paris: Gaume frères, 1827.
- ↑ Source note a: “Vindication” replaces “defense of the.”
