Report on the pygmies of the Cameroonian forest, written as contribution to the centenary of the Basel Mission, by missionary Nathanael Lauffer (B.V.1294); two photographs exist in our photo archive
A Single letter, dated 27.Oct.1889, Strassburg and written by W. Liebenstein with permission to use his sons legacy, meant for Basel Mission work in Africa, for the new mission-station to be built at Mangamba; (See also KP 1889, § 620)
A report on his 4-week journey in Ghana, while on his way to Cameroon, together with missionary Schaefer and missionary Hummel; written at Buea, Cameroon
Copy of a manuscript on the miracle and the individuality of a Bantu language as spoken by one Cameroonian coastal tribe, and the Spiritual inheritance revealed by it
9 exercise-books with handwritten notes on various cultural and ethnographic themes. Most of them are numbered, beginning with II, ending with XXIV, but many numbers missing; At least some of themes were written in Jamaica as various exercise-books…
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