Theodor Oehler’s Visitation in India 1889. An important loose collection of documents generated by Inspector Oehler’s visit to India in 1889 - addresses of welcome, petitions, some letters from Oehler to the Mission House in Basel, and some letters…
Miscellaneous reports from the year 1912. Three documents in German MS which should have been bound with the 1912 correspondence from India (C-1184 to C-1.187): (a) report on the examinations in the Seminary in Mangalore 14 pp., 26. Mar. 1912. (b) …
Misc. letters 1912 [should have been filed in C-1.]187. 8 misc. letters from 1912 which had not been filed in the appropriate correspondence volumes. Several of the letters seem to be about health administration in Northern Karnataka.
a 16 p. duplicated paper from the National Seminar on the Ritualistic Theatre of Coastal Karnataka, Udipi, 1986 (this document is marked "revised copy for the press").
Burangi, the praise of God. The development of a congregation among outcastes in India 35 p. anon. n.d., but T/S with detailed account of contacts with dalits in the early 1940s in Suranigi, a village in the region around Betgeri. Written by a woman…
Miscellaneous MSS 1915-1933. In 5/06 the contents of this box were unordered and unindexed. They probably originate in one of the leading offices of the Mission House in Basel, include a lot of original documentation in English from India, and a…
Malayalam Bible Translation - the Revision of the Malayalam New Testament. This contains correspondence from the 1880s centred on an ecumenical Bible Revision committee. Much of the material exists here in printed form also. One point at issue was…
Malayalam Seminar, from the papers of [L.J.] Frohnmeyer. The authors represented include Ch. Irion and possibly H. Gundert. These documents seem to be a collection of research papers, and the results of translation work, and they certainly go…
[examples of] schoolwork. Mostly undated, but probably early 20th century on the whole, mostly drawing and writing exercises, probably brought to Europe for exhibition. One very interesting drawing book with maps, from a pupil of the Training School…
Dr Beatrice Jenny’s journey to India 1964-5 [Beatrice Jenny had been the headmistress of a school in Ghana, and was later a member of the Secretaries’ Conference in Basel]. Very miscellaneous papers collected by Dr. Jenny on that journey.
a translation of a passage from the same dissertation as C-10.27,5, 8 pp. An interesting critique of a translation of De Imitatione Christi and of the early Catholic effort to develop a Christian vocabulary in Kannada.
Bible Women I - and on its first page Indische Bibelfrauen / Freundeskreis in der Schweiz / Indian Bible Women and supporting circles in Switzerland. From the office of Ms D. Sarasin, c. 1931-1960. There are indications that this file is not about…
Contents organised in A-4 folders or envelopes. Mögling to Hebich 1836-57 Mörike to Hebich 1846-56 (very few) Weigle to Hebich c.1842-c.1853 (Bührer to Hebich, 1847-53, not many, and they appear to have arrived in the archive via the Kühner family)…
1845 1846 1847 includes one letter in English d. 1st April to Henry Venn. 1848 the reference on the cover to an intensive exchange of letters Mögling/Hebich on financial matters presumably refers to documents since put in the special Mögling file…
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