"Komitee-Briefe März 1912-Juli 1914 / Committee letters 1912-1914"

The successor to C-5-1.27. A substantial volume (31x24x4cm dimensions inside the binding) containing 487 numbered pages. 319 of these pages are used as mounts for copies of letters to India from the India Inspector in Basel. From p. 88 (Dec. 1912) these copies are typewritten. Before p. 88 they are mostly handwritten. All letters are on light-weight paper (air mail paper? Tissue paper from copy books?). This looks like a very useful compendium - easy to read, once the typewriter is in use, with clear chains of addressees down through the Mission hierarchy, and an excellent insight into the patterns of thought and organisation characteristic of the Committee in Basel in the years before 1914. There is, however, no indication as to where this volume was generated. It evidently lay with the other materials from station archives in India, and the handwritten label on the front of its cover is of the same type as those found on other volumes brought back from India c.1920 by Eidenbenz (although there is no explicit reference to this provenance). Ms Haas was of the opinion that these copies were collected in the office of the Präses (Field Superintendant in Mangalore) who will have seen all these letters on their arrival in India.

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