Abstracts from correspondence in the Basel Mission Archives 1828-1851 made by Dr. Hans Debrunner in 1956. File covering the correspondence of all stations which existed in these years, and including material from missionaries' personal files and…
Ghana-Abstracts from correspondence in the Basel Mission 1850 to 1898, made by P. Jenkins, from 1970 on, approx. 700 pages. The correspondence abstracted here is almost exclusively from Series D-1, mainly from the Twi District, frontier stations…
A file where miscellaneous type-written copies of documents from the D-1 series are collected. The earliest date back to 1848, and are concerned with the West Indians in Akropong, Zimmermann's marriage and explorations in the Volta region. Later a…
Trial Sermons with the lecturers' assessments from the Pastors' Seminary in Akropong. Each sermon is signed by a different student: the assessments are written in Twi by the missionary Wilhelm Rottmann.
From one end it consists of explanations of Twi proverbs and is dated May 1890, from the other notes on Twi talks on the catechism given in Begoro in 1896. (i.e. used by the Missionary Kurtz)
The Wisdom of the Africans of the Gold Coast as illustrated in their proverbs, with more than 3000 Twi proverbs listed. Notebook in Christaller's handwriting. For other proverbs see also D/20,Sch.3,16 and D/20,Sch.4,11 and 13.
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