Brief Memorials of An Only Son by A.N. Brown

Alfred Nesbit Brown was as a Church Missionary Society missionary who served in New Zealand from 1829 to 1884. He wrote this, his only printed work, as a response to the death of his only son, Alfred Marsh, who died at age 14. He also founded a scholarship in his memory at St John's College in Auckland. John Hobbs was a Wesleyan Missionary Society missionary who headed the establishment of the mission station at Mangungu.