Ledger with format 32.5x16 cm, 192 numbered pages, and a crude alphabetical index of missionaries’ names at the rear. About three-quarters used, with repeated sections of empty pages. Working language: mixed. Condition: good, though the binding needs…
Paperback school exercise book with no page numbers, the paper block between the covers 0.3 cm thick. Covering the years 1909-1914. A note in the inside cover indicates that this volume was maintained by the General Treasurer’s office, but kept most…
Hard cover school exercise book with no page numbers. Only c.16 pages have been used. Covers the years 1915-1918. Working language English. The same excellent handwriting as C-5-3.1 Evidently a successor to C-5-3.10.
Hard cover school exercise book with no page numbers. The double-page spreads are numbered by hand 1-28 and are devoted to the different accounts run by the station. Much of the data is of restricted value, however - many of the movements of money…
Hard-cover school exercise book with no page numbers, about 15 double-page spreads used. The working language is English, and the handwriting us the same as C-5-3.1. The years covered are 1913-1917, and the book was used to record incomings and…
[There is no further formal indication of the contents of this volume]. Hard cover school exercise book with 176 numbered pages, 91 of them used. Covers the years 1913-1918. Account book: chronological record of incomings and outgoings - Mercara…
Hard-cover ledger book 22x13.5 cm, double-page spreads, numbered by hand, the highest number being 144. Condition: paper good, but it is breaking out of the binding. Records the movement of money in a large number of accounts (see informal index in…
Foolscap format, paper block 0.4 cm between covers. Condition: binding fairly good, paper discolouring, in most places ink spread a serious problem, often scarcely legible. Index of letters from Committee by alphabetical indication of content…
Paper format 29x22.5cm, paper block between covers 1.4 cm. Printed forms filled in by hand in the old German handwriting. Condition: excellent. More or less chronological summary list of the decisions taken in Basel and announced to the Field…
Foolscap format, 772 numbered pages. Still in the original binding (which has lost its spine). A collection of duplicated (lithographed) circulars in the old German handwriting, though there may be one or two original letters bound in as well.…
Format 27x23.5 cm, largely original letters from Basel bound together in a volume whose covers have been lost. No consecutive page numbers, but the documents are numbered 1-103, and there is at the rear an alphabetical index of themes, persons etc. …
Freshly bound, previously in the same state as C-5-4.4. A recent hand has numbered the right-hand pages, they total 200. There is no index. Condition: the circulars are in good condition, but many of the original letters from Basel are…
A successor file to C-5-4.5, indeed the modern page numbering continues with p. 201 and goes on to p. 336 (NB about half-way through the volume documents begin to be numbered, rather than right-hand pages). There is, again, no index. Condition: very…
An original compilation, still in its original binding, cover format 30x27 cm, the paper block between the covers 4 cm thick. NB this volume uses a system in which strips of paper c. 5.5 cm wide were bound together, and the papers to be filed then…
Format, construction and condition like C-5-4.7. File generated in the office of the South Canara District Chairman. Mostly letters from Basel, but also some letters originated in India. Includes at least two detailed general instructions in English…
File from the Field Chairman’s office. Very large file constructed like C-5-4.7, but with flat dimensions 38x32 cm, the block of paper c 4.5 cm thick between the covers. Condition: fairly good. Generated in the office of the Field Chairman/General…
Format, construction, condition as C-5-4.7. A file generated in the office of the Basel Mission’s General Treasurer. Overwhelmingly materials in German, though the use of the typewriter is growing steadily. A cursory search found nothing other than…
Format, construction, condition as C-5-4.7 File generated in the office of the Basel Mission’s General Treasurer. Compared with C-5-4.10 it contains (virtually no) correspondence down the Mission’s main hierarchy. Instead there is a lot of technical…
Format, construction and condition as C-5-4.7 Generated in the General Treasurer’s office. The date "1914" is misleading - some letters from 1914 are simply laid into the rear end-papers. The last letter bound in is dated Oct. 1912. This is the…
Remains of a volume into which original letters had been pasted, the block of paper which forms the anchorage of the letters being c.2.1 cm thick. Condition of the letters: medium to poor. A number of letters are suffering from acute discoloration of…
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