File containing 12 letters written by the Bremen missionary Friedrich Flothmeier and 8 letters by his colleague G. Däuble from America, both stranded there by the beginning of the First World War
A book into which are bound letters passing between Government and the Mission in Ghana, along with other miscellaneous letters which have been simply placed in the book. The earliest date from 1874, the most recent from 1917, though there is also a…
Enthält Berichte von / contains reports by: Jakob Friedrich Sessing; Joh. Christian Simon Handt; Christian Gottlieb Hegele; Georg Adam Kissling; Heinrich Hieronymus Wulff; Johannes Bührer; Rudolf Dietschy; Heinrich Julius Fr. Emil Graner sowie…
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…
betr. Uersetzungsfragen in der Gemeindeordnung, 1899, 4 S., MS - / d. 5th Dec. 1899, on translation questions in relation to the congregational regulations., in German, on translation questions concerning the congregational regulations. …
It encloses a 3 pp. English letter from CMS headquarters in London dd. 14th Feb. 1880 about the legal position of converted young women who were married as children to Hindu husbands, and a 5 p. English Memorandum from Graeter, evidently on the same…
Final accounts of the building of the station. The protocol asks for permission to build a teacher's house, since Dako is planning to marry shortly which will make the catechists' house no longer an adequate lodging for him.
About the various households of the missionaries. How the work is distributed. Notes about the religion: Nyankopong-Asase-Bosomprame and his two sons: Kyengku(Obosomase-fetish) and Oda (the most cruel and most feared son of Bosompra). Osiawu: fetish…
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