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More on the Juaben problem. He quotes a reply to his letter to Abetifi from Werner dd 16 August. In Abetifi they were surprised to hear of troubles developing between Asante and Juaben. All is quiet there, and no-one grudges the Juabenhene his fate…

In reply to the Basel question what practical results the proclamation of slave-emancipation has had on the slaves themselves, Dieterle writes that in Tutu, Asantema (Obosomase), Afwerase, Aburi and many farming villages, on the whole only individual…

Reports Governor Usher's request, dated 10 February 1880 that Buck should come to Accra to serve as witness in the case against Ata.

The work he does is quite different from what he thought. He has nothing to do with the labour of the West Indians and with carpentry. Mr. Mohr is taking good care of this. He found the wood of the sawing machine all rotten and eaten by termites. He…

Palaver with the West Indians about higher salary. Widmann angry that they demand it. Dieterle sees the need for higher salaries and better houses. He loves the West Indians and understands that the bitterness is still a heritage from the time of…

Asks for a wife. Knows a Sophie Weigle. Might she not be the person the Lord wanted for him?

Sad that perhaps H.N. Riis will not come out soon, needed for the institute planned for schoolteachers. Hope in school: A seven year old school boy refuses to besmear himself with white clay for his soul (p 1). Without being asked, the children…

Tells the inspector that it had always been his desire to go to Africa and that he was inwardly disappointed, when first told to go to North America, but then he submitted and was appointed to Akropong to his great joy.

Parts printed: Heidenbote 1848, pp 74-75 (funeral sacrifice at Tutu, noisy interruption of services). Not printed: Baptism of the first fruits. Baptismal lessons with Jonathan Bekoe Palmer begun. His father a good man (pp 1-2). Elders wanted to…

Pleads for Thompson: He should be given a school in the interior in future (p 1). How he learns Twi: comparing dictionaries and working out his own (p 2). Evening school with the West Indians. Personal matters between schiedt and Stanger (p 3).…

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…

Receipt of school materials acknowledged. Request for test books for the teacher training institute. Disappointed that no seeds from the West Indies arrived.

Sorry he is not yet able to do without an interpreter. Reason: Much work with the school and the college where he teaches 12 periods a week and has the supervision, a difficult task to bring them to a regular and well-ordered life. Hopes to find more…

Personal: Regrets that personal opinion on Mrs. Widmann has been misquoted in public. Treat private letters as private.

Urgent request for textbooks and school materials.

Personal. Mrs. Widmann works hard and they have a good relation to her, but for his own needs he still wants a wife.

Extracts from his diary: February 4th: visit of the village of an influential man – patriarch - likes feeling of the place. To Aburi because of sickness of Meischel. Story of Alexander Clerk’s true repentance over his fall with Ann Rochester.…

Requirements: New turner's tools, Chinin, vaccination serum against small pox, school books, Text books for the college (Dr. Barth's books).

Personal introduction (p 1). Extracts from diary. Parts printed: Heidenbote 1850, p 97 (death of convert Okoi). Not printed: Short note about transfer of authority, visits, departure of Meischel and Widmann. Arrival of the new brethren and brides,…

Mainly personal. Cases of Church discipline. Jonathan Palmer should be married, the West Indian Miller does not want to give him his daughter (pp 1-3). Adum had returned and claims the paramount stool again (pp 3-4).
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