A very early copy-book made of tissue paper, probably one of the earliest in the archive. The dimensions including the cover are 27 x 22 x 3.1 cm. The copy-book was used from back to front - about 2/3 of the pages are unused. It contains tissue paper…
Modern folder with title by W. Haas, 15 letters copied out by hand from the late 1840s and early 1850s, probably most from Adolf Sarasin, and including a number of letters to Marie Kegel, a young lady who travelled for the Basel Mission to India, and…
Collection of bound and duplicated (lithographed) letters 1845-1852. Original cover lost, no title. Texts written in Calw and London, duplicated in Mangalore, information for serving missionaries in India. Foolscap format (and most papers in the…
Format 27.5x21.5x0.8 cm, original cover lost. Up to 1867 the circulars are handwritten lithographic copies. In 1867 they begin to be set in type. There is no index. Condition: pretty good. At least two original letters have found their way into…
1871-5. Format 26x21 cm, tissue paper copies, made however by a carbon-paper method. Condition: very moderate - the writer seems to have often applied the carbon paper to the wrong side of the page. Perhaps 10 letters counted altogether.
An A-4 tear-off or scratch pad, with 200 numbered sheets, though the first 19 sheets have been torn off. It has been used to make carbon-paper copies. Condition: moderate or slightly better. The paper is discolouring uniformly. There is some…
A substantial volume (31x24x3.8 cm). The pages are not numbered, but judging by C-5-1.28 it will contain c. 450 pp., on at least 400 pp. of which tissue-paper copies of letters to India from the Director and the India Inspector in Basel are…
The successor to C-5-1.27. A substantial volume (31x24x4cm dimensions inside the binding) containing 487 numbered pages. 319 of these pages are used as mounts for copies of letters to India from the India Inspector in Basel. From p. 88 (Dec. 1912)…
497-page tissue-paper copy book, of which only pp. 1-193 and 497 were used, covering the years 1907-1919. Authors: Vogel, Eidenbenz Although the draft guide to the India Archive identified this as a copy-book generated in Kodakal, closer…
NB the title is neither modern, nor original Pages of a small (28x18x1.5 cm) book (cover lost) with stout paper into which important documents appear to have been copied. Condition: good (except that the cover is missing). The earliest documents…
School exercise book format, the first 33 pages have been numbered by hand (but 33 pages is probably somewhat less than half the whole book). Condition: severely damaged by insects/worms, and towards the end heavy ink-spread makes the documents…
Small (22.5x18x0.7 cm) school exercise book with original copies of minutes of the General Conference Executive Committee for the years given. Pages not numbered. The minutes reflect intensive meetings in 1886 and the first half of 1887. In the other…
Foolscap format record, 2.5 cm thick, the cover has been lost. The last handwritten page number is 324, but it must be c. 400 pages long. Conservation standard: fairly good, with only light insect/worm damage. Handwritten and typewritten minutes of…
Foolscap format record, with 684 numbered pages. Cover lost. Condition fairly good, though on a number of pages the writing on both sides is visible. The minutes up to the final expulsion of Basel Missionaries after the First World War cover the pp…
Volume in new binding, the title presumably taken over from the cover when it was replaced. Foolscap format, with 390 hand-numbered pages of text, and what looks like a functioning alphabetical index of personal- and place names, and of topics, at…
Volume in new binding, the title presumably taken over from the old cover when it was replaced. Foolscap format, no page numbers, paper 1.2 cm thick. Condition: poor. Virtually every page has lost a substantial chunk at the top to insect/worm…
Volume in new binding, the title presumably taken over from the old cover when it was replaced. Foolscap format, 223 pages numbered by hand. Conservation standard: good, not least because most of the pages have only been written on one side. …
Volume in new binding, the title presumably taken over from the old cover when it was replaced. Foolscap format, c. 270 hand-numbered pages, with functional alphabetical index at rear. Some miscellaneous documents in German and Kannada in a pocket at…
Volume in new binding. Foolscap format, hand-numbered pages end at p. 276, but there must be c. 400 pp. altogether (internal dimension: 2 cm thick). Conservation standard: moderate to good, on a lot of pages ink has soaked through from behind. …
Volume in original leather binding, external dimensions 27.5x21x2 cm. Condition: moderate to good, ink and legibility being the main problem. NB it appears also to contain some minutes of the District Executive Committee. Continues with C-5-2.3 OR…
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