"Protokolle der Ostindien Visitation 1851-1852 / Minutes of Inspector Josenhans’ visitation, India, 1851-1852"

This volume evidently contains what is intended as a full set of the minutes and regulations generated by Josenhans’ visitation as Inspektor (effectively: CEO). It covers all the areas where the Basel Mission was working, and includes notes on a number of one-to-one discussions with individual missionaries. As with C-1.9 the bulk of the material has been produced by a lithographic method which allowed for the duplication of handwritten MSS. But there are also some MS documents which were evidently not duplicated. There is a four-page index of contents at the front of the volume, but it is not organised as carefully as the normal C-1 volumes, and care must be taken in referring to its contents, since the documents do not have single unambiguous references. At the end of the volume a mauve paper file has been put into an envelope with the title Zur ostindischen Visitation 1851/1852. f.ii.2.b1 (i.e. "on the Visitation of East India 1851/2", with a reference number that now makes no sense). The main contents of this file are as follows: firstly, a large number of mostly single-sheet letters written to Josenhans in India or in some way linked to his visit and deliberations. secondly a number of letters written by Josenhans in his own hand to the Mission Committee in Basel thirdly, nos. 15 to 17 of the duplicated Vertrauliche Mitteilungen ("Confidential Information" distributed to leading supporters of the Mission), including in No. 15 a 3-page life of Hermann Kaundinya. Only no. 17 is dated (Sep. 1851). lastly, offprints of articles published in Evangelische Heidenbote on Josenhans’ visit to India

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