Rain on the Coast great. 50 houses at Ussu and their chapel under construction collapsed. Difficulties of Meischel: Employs an Accra man who has as a trophy an elbow of Owusu Akyem which he himself cut off. The Accra laborers of Meischel therefore…
About requirements (pp 1-2). School materials ordered have still not arrived (p 2). Financial matters. Hospitality does not come too costly. Halleur not dead but staying with the Bapttsts at Fernando Po. Schmidt from Tantum has returned to Europe (p…
Salary accounts of the teachers: 5 teachers and one monitor in the boys' school; second school (mixed: 2 salaried teachers and a number of none salaried monitors. Third school (girls) with three teachers. There is also a paid local preacher. The…
Not happy that the committee does not send out a teacher. A missionary usually not inclined to teach 4 lessons daily. Worried that a third missionary shall come to Christiansborg. Difficulty of living together with Stanger.
Stanger pp 1-2, Schiedt (p 3). Matters at Teshi: The school has dropped down to three boys. The bad behavior of Jonas Hosford had been the first blow, the present teacher is also unsuitable, the fetishpriest against it. They say: Our God Laakpa has…
1) About the transfer of the Government chaplaincy. The chaplain has fallen into the hands of the Negro girls, unsuitable. 2) Financial matter. 3) Wolf has gone to Peki, but the Hamburg Committee does not agree and commands him to go to the Danya (?)…
About the ordering of goods by the brethren (p 1). Against the custom to give European family names to newly baptized converts (p 2). Difficulties with burial of baptised Mulattos: want to be buried in their own houses and yet to have a Christian…
Maschinengeschrieben Burangi, the praise of God. The development of a congregation among outcastes in India. Contains a detailed account of contacts with dalits in the early 1940s in Suranigi, a village in the region around Betgeri. Written by a…
Personal compendium of documentation and photographs with commentary about his life as missionary trained in Basel 1847-53, and his work as CMS missionary at first in East Africa but from 1858 till his death missionary in Mumbai specialising in…
Maschinengeschriebene Briefe sowie Typoskripte mit Auszügen aus den Briefen für das Sekretariat der Basler Mission, erstellt durch die Eltern / Typewritten letters as well as typescripts with extracts from the letters for the Secretariat of the Basel…
News about his severe sickness which he attracted after his journey to Krobo-Akwamu-Peki in September. Has recovered. Personal matters (Schiedt) and requirements.
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