"Quartalsberichte Indian 1859 / Quarterly Reports from India 1859."

This volume contains 101 documents. They have all been given serial numbers. There is no bound-in index, though what appears to be the draft MS preparation for an index is filed loosely in an envelope at the end of the volume. And indeed, the order in which the reports have been bound together seems to correspond to the order in which the individual stations appear in C-1.24 and in the draft list. If this is the case the relative scarcity of letters from Northern Karnataka in C-1.24 is balanced by the larger volume of quarterly reports from that area in this volume, though the draft list does not include the Northern Karnataka stations. NB a quarterly report by Würth on Hindu/Lingayat beliefs, dated June 1859, has been filed in C-1.26, in an appendix (Anhang) at the end of the volume. Series C-1 in the 1860s. From 1860 the characteristic organisation of the annual filing of the letters and reports received from India has one volume covering the correspondence of the Mission’s central administration in India, PLUS correspondence from the two Kannada-speaking districts ("South Mahratta" and "Canara"), and a second volume covering the correspondence from North Kerala ("Malabar") and the Nilgiris. The volume of correspondence each year remains more or less constant. This Guide offers a detailed insight into the organisation of the volumes for 1860 (C-1.26 and C-1.27) and 1865 (C-1.36 and C-1.37) but will only comment on the organisation of the years 1861-19 when these diverge from the 1860 norm. The indexing continues, on the whole, unhelpful and very cursory, but there are signs that "help is on the way" -a caption is given for the content of Quarterly Reports in these volumes. When this is possible the Guide gives some specimen indications of what look like especially interesting single reports, or groups of reports, for 1860 and 1865.

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