Work with the teacher training institutes much reading, retelling and memorizing of biblical stories and passages from the reader. A weekly letter to be written about the news in town etc. Dictations, Geography, Hymn singing. This all taught by him…
Requirements: seeds for American tobacco, strong tools, shoes etc. Considerations why not to lose courage. The giving up of fetishes does not profit much, a change of heart is needed. No rum is given by the missionaries now. Sad experiences with a…
Sad that the committee reproached him to have too luxurious building plans. The letter arrived when rain was dropping into his house. Urges for a wife, necessary for the work among the women and to get girls for the school.
Mainly personal: Marriage request repeated, about his insufficient housing, the reaction of the West Indians to the letter of the committee giving them a date to decide themselves. Walker thinks the letter bad, the Akropong people good. About the…
The Danish Government has now more soldiers and therefore the slave trade can be suppressed better. Many liberated slaves, however, are recaptured. The Governor asked the mission, whether they would not settle liberated slaves with a missionary on…
No 16 almost unreadable, No 17 readable copy of No 16. Personal affairs: A long account of his palaver with the other missionaries in his light. The teacher of Teshi ran away.
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