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1) Sad that the committee is not ready to send more brethren. Need for more workers even to carry in the work begun. 2) Why they had so great expenses. 3) Alexander Clerk is again teaching at the West Indian school. He is not yet proficient enough in…

Financial affairs. Thanks for wine and linen received.

With notes from Schiedt, Stanger and Meischel. Request that Schiedt on the coast could be made cashier, because it is more convenient. Reasons given.

1) Things belonging to a station should not be taken to another station, but new things should be bought. 2) Schiedt will write on financial affairs. 3) Financial things. 4) About the West Indians: a) Approximate costs of the settlement for this year…

Glad that the operation of H.N. Riis succeeded well. Difficulties for a teacher for West Indians: Alexander Clerk refuses to come to Akropong again. So Dieterle must take care of this school. Difficulties with the West Indians: They demand more and…

Addressed to Mr. Christ-Sarasin who cares for the economic matters of West Africa. Glad that new brethren and his bride have arrived. Orders: Cloth, saws, carpenter's tools, school materials, watches. His wife is teaching a number of girls she has…

Economic matters: Goods have arrived (saws-cloth) but seawater damaged them at the landing. Why the West Indians need so much cloth: it is to be considered as a gift for once, not an annual expenditure (p 1-2). Progress in the school (p 3).

H.N. Riis is leaving now. A letter for Sebald from 1844 has arrived.

Necessity for H.N. Riis to return to Europe with the next occasion (p 1). About the stationing of the new brethren, why Aburi. Need to occupy stations soon and quicker, Methodists advance. Alexander Clerk should marry, where shall they get the…

Glad of the news about the bride found for him. The description of her fits his requirements. Also glad about the news that new brethren come. Consoled in loneliness when his African boys sing an English hymn. Riis sicker than before, Schiedt sick…

Financial and economic matters: How to get money, no more trading, labourers paid in cloth, rum needed and why, difficulties that not all West Indians are strong enough to work as sawers and that they have no lighter work, their many attempts with…

Parts printed: Heidenbote 1846, p 35 (ritual murder). Not printed: The sawing machine in not being used. It is a heavy machine, needs 6-8 people to be moved and used and has to be transported from tree to tree. The West Indians are much better at…

Parts printed: Heidenbote 1845, p 100. School at Akropong. Not printed: Widmann's opinion that the harmattan is an unhealthy season. Request that the committee looks for a wife for him: Proposes one of the daughters of family Klaiber at Böblingen…

Parts printed: Missionsmagazin 1845, pp 100 f: Requests for schools. People listen to gospel, but fetish fear great, language work. Not printed: Death of Rev. Watkins, Methodist, at English Accra (p 1). West Indians: Better relations to them as…

Last paragraph: The slave emancipation is causing a lot of dust to rise. In Kibi it is said the young king is mishandling the slaves who no longer want to remain in his service, and the government must intervene there if the emancipation is to be…

His report on the visit in Kibi contains the information that in Kibi there are 7 marriages between Christian men and heathen women, and in Kukurantumi 2. The elders of the Kibi community are Jacob Koagyeman (who is described as almost too old to…

Written in his capacity as 'Praeses’ (Chairman) of the Basel Mission on the Gold Coast. A year ago the Governor (Strahan) urged him to write to him privately if the need ever arose - he did this over he risks of the Kwahu mission, and forwards…

By the end of the letter Süss has returned to Akropong, and is offering to put himself back under the direction of the Basel Committee and the General Conference on the Gold Coast, though he proposes that Clerk should accompany him back to Gyadam as…

A short letter, inter al about Akim, but refering to a Station Conference- protocol of 9 March which includes, a discussion which culminated in Mader and Dieterle going to Gyadam in an effort to get Süss to come back to Akropong (v. No. III.13, pp…
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