June 7th: The students built a bathroom and a hen house. Slave trade episode. July 3rd: Opening of the seminary with prayer and reading of the house rules. Lessons: from 8-9 and 11-12 a.m. and 2-4 p.m. Free: 4-5. Manual work: 5-6 p.m. Evening:…
6-7/1/1848: Excitement about the threating imagined coming of the Governor. The chief in Akira wants them to come to him. 20/1: Visit to Adukrum 12/2: Visit by a Krepe man who brought a present from his chief, to whom he had spoken about the mission…
News about the school. Mrs. Widmann teaches also since there isa lack of teachers, and not only domestic science. Helped by Rosaly Miller. Why no female converts till now.
Receipt of school materials acknowledged. Request for test books for the teacher training institute. Disappointed that no seeds from the West Indies arrived.
Received cloth, but much spoiled, since thieves broke the parcels open in the canoe. About the building expenses (pp 1-3). Slave trade continues: A captured man from English Accra freed by the missionaries - a Ningo man and a man from Accra trade…
Report on the plantation work (p 1). Difficulties with labourers settled. Buildings, carpentry work, repair of West Indian houses (p 2). The sawing machine repaired, but the wood cannot be brought here, therefore the machine useless (pp 2-3). Sheep…
About the progress in school and the difficulties: Twi spelling not yet fixed enough, children admitted into school at odd times, lack of teachers (pp 1-2). Trouble with termites in house (p 2). Suicide of Adukrum poisoner. Difficulties of the…
pp 1-2: Marriage matter. p 3: Request for the model of an oil press of a simple type. The plan they have are too complicated. Need for saws and instructions for the making of tobacco. p 4: Requests for school books and for watches for the West…
Account on the attempts to cultivate plants, attempts to make manure (p 2) The West Indians begin to plant. The missionaries work on their farms also to show them how to do it (p 3). Success of Mr. Mohr's farm. Request for seeds of breadfruit tree…
Mainly concerning the future of the West Indians. After three month everyone must have made up his mind whether to return or to stay. Those remaining shall get stone houses (size and way of building laid down). They shall be encouraged to plant, not…
Personal affairs with the West Indians: Widmann sees that in a certain case he did wrong (pp 1-3). About the planting: It is uneconomic to plant native fruits and root (yams etc.). Better concentrate on coffee and other products not planted by the…
Visited Krobo. Chief O Loko Patu friendly. He has already sent three of his children to the Wesleyan school at Danish Accra. Claim to have none to send to Akropong. Mountain villages steep and narrow rooms. He should investigate the possibility of…
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