Salvation in Brahmanism, Guilt in Brahmanism. Folio-Format MSS, 18 pp & 12 pp., term-papers from H.Menke, a pre-ordination student of theology, n.d. A MS note informs us that H. Menke was not a member of the Basel Mission.
English lessons for the Seminary in Malabar on Astronomy and Philosophy, with two sermons from Rev. Frohnmeyer. The exercise books contains scripts in English apparently written by L. Frohnmeyer for him to read out in class, or sermon texts (the…
India: essays, lectures, MS 1918, by Heinrich Kühner, BV 1464 an archive file (19x27x3 cm). It contains two exercise books of the same format as those in C-10.4a&b. The texts are in German. Only the first essay is dated (1918 in Jercand). So the…
Circular to the Basel Mission stations in India on financial matters, 1847. The Circular is 4 pp long and dated 21st Sep. 1847 (lithographed in the old German handwriting) and contains a definition of the points B to Q which have to be treated…
What can and should the Mission do to cushion social problems in Malabar in addition to the industries it has introduced? By Rev. Jaus. The contents of this folder have been indexed: The Jaus paper above, dated 3rd Dec. 1894, MS 5 pp. Peter, Gustav…
Regulations for the indigenous preachers working for the Basel Mission in India. It contains copies of: -printed regulations in German for catechists 29 pp., 1863 revised edition; -printed regulations in German for Deacons [effectively: future…
congregational regulations for India. Correspondence concerning the revised congregational regulations for India printed in German and published in 1900. A copy of the page proof of these regulations is contained in this folder, but almost all the…
Suggested mission projects which were turned down details below. -Ghant’s Plantation - 4 letters, one of them long, discuss in 1840 a project to start a coffee plantation on the Western Ghats at Agumbi, 30 hours from Mangalore. This is being…
concerning roofing materials for our stations in India 1872. 10 short papers (letters, Station Conference Minutes etc) in reply to a query started by the Committee in Basel about roofing materials on BM stations in India. NB all the letters include…
correspondence between Casamajor and Mögling 1848-9. Uniformly written copies of an exchange of letters dated from July 1848 to January 1849, 79 foolscap pages.
Garrow Mission, correspondence with Colonel Foquett in London and the Brethren Blaich and Roth 1865-69. 32 numbered letters (and one or two unnumbered ones) concerning mission in the Garrow Hills area of Assam. Nicholaus Roth (BV 600) and Johannes…
Sawyer’s missionary project. E.E. Sawyer was the directing engineer about to start building a railway from the west coast (Goa) to Dharwad and Hubli in 1881. He proposed that the Basel Mission should extend its work to cover the main settlements…
Kannada liturgy 1875-79, see also Comittee Minutes §353/1879. Correspondence and reports concerning the proposed new Kannada liturgy, some items extensive.
(Memorandum from Rev. E. Diez about evangelisation among women and girls in Kanara, South Mahratta and Malabar, 1882. Fundamental and important 90 p. MS on this theme with list of contents at rear.
Reports on preaching to non-Christians by G. Wagner in Chombala, 1882-3. The folder contains MS reports in German: 6 very systematic-looking MS reports from G. Wagner about preaching to non-christians around the mission station in Chombala, dated…
a small collection of papers about the Catechist Paul Tschandran. From the papers of W. Müller (BV 1612). Perhaps 20 pages of German MSS from different sources on his baptism in the early 1850s, and his ordination in 1867.
Minutes of the 7th General Conference of the German Evangelical Mission in South-West India, Mangalore, 21-23 Jan. 1861 28 pp. This is the original with signatures - a note states that a 31-page lithographed copy of these minutes has been bound into…
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