"Briefe an S. Hebich Indien 1834-44"

Contents organised in A-4 folders or envelopes. Mögling to Hebich 1836-57 Mörike to Hebich 1846-56 (very few) Weigle to Hebich c.1842-c.1853 (Bührer to Hebich, 1847-53, not many, and they appear to have arrived in the archive via the Kühner family) Letters from 1834 1835 "inter al letters from Blumhardt, Barth, Rhenius, many of the students in the Missionary college, Basel, and many friends in Germany, Switzerland, England and India" ... Hebich’s letters to his colleagues [in Mangalore, presumably] on his journey from Cananore to South Mahratta are apparently filed here, the original archive index mentions a letter from one Frey about pietists in Ulm, and about Rhenius’ conflict with the CMS." A cursory search indicates that all letters are in German. 1836 1837 In this year for the first time letters appear in English - indeed the bulk of the letters seem to be in this language. 1838 1839 Almost exclusively letters in German (a note indicates that letters from Gundert have been taken out of the file, see comments on its route to Basel above). 1840 Includes a letter from Haeberlin in Calcutta 1841 A note on the file cover for these letters indicates that the question of marriage was a serious one in this year. 1842 Mainly in German. Includes a lithographed memorial of the Greiner marriage in which it appears each missionary contributed in his own handwriting a text of his choosing. 1843 1844 an earlier examination of this file reckons it contains ca. 150 letters, virtually all of them in German.

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1834-1844

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