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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
504 page tissue-paper copy book, all used. The original cover is no longer present. A functional alphabetical index of addressees is at the rear. Substantial insect/worm damage. Legibility variable and on average not very good. Authors: Knobloch, …
Tissue-paper pages without page-numbers. The cover is lost and the binding has broken, so that bundles of pages are loose - the whole is kept in a cardboard file. It seems that the original book was not simply used from the beginning to the end -…
499-page tissue-paper copy book, all pages used. Conservation: not bad, but most copies rather pale. Exactly how this file relates to C-5-1.7 is not clear to me (PJ 07/08). This file also includes a lot of local correspondence in English Minutes of…
498-page tissue-copy copy book, of which 491 pp. have been used. Some few documents are type-written. Conservation - fairly good for a record of this type. Authors: Eidenbenz, Vogel, Lütscher. (Eidenbenz is also the addressee of most of the Vogel…
500 page tissue-paper copy book, of which 289 pp. have been used. On the whole the copies are more easily legible than in most volumes of this kind, though a number of documents are more or less lost through the faintness of their ink. General…
496 page tissue-paper copy book, all pages used, with an unused alphabetical register at the rear. Authors: Knobloch, Hoch. Ms Haas regarded this as a copy book of the Canara District Secretary. Includes many letters to addressees in India.
503 pp. Tissue-paper copy book, all pages used, but with an unused alphabetical index at the front. Conservation: many of the pages have been seriously damaged/made illegible by a too-rich uptake of ink. NB the letters are in reverse chronological…
497-page tissue-paper copy book, all pages used, with a used alphabetical index of addressees at the front. Indifferent quality. Authors: B. Graeter, G.Burkhardt and A. Finckh, all Mangalore. It was not possible, during a cursory examination, to…
500 tissue-page copy book, all pages used, and an alphabetical index at the front. The cover is lost and the binding breaking up. These pages are collected in an archive box. Authors: Hoch, Knobloch. A cursory examination suggests that this…
500 pp. tissue-paper copy book, all pages used, though the alphabetical index at the front is unused. Newly bound. Copy quality variable, but in much of the book fairly good. Authors: Hoch, Schosser. A lot of local correspondence (particularly…
Tissue-paper copy book, 498 pp., all used, covers lost (contained in the same box as 15b). Alphabetical index in front unused. Copy quality variable but, on the whole, not good. Authors: Hoch, Frohnmeyer. Continuation of C-5-1.15b, including some…
Tissue-paper copy book, 500 pp (all used), covers lost (15b and 15c are contained in the same archive box). Alphabetical index in front unused. Quality of the copies very variable. But on the whole reading easier than in many volumes of this kind. …
99 pp., all used (tho’ pp. 68-83 are missing), with an unused alphabetical index at the front. An early version of the tissue-paper copy book, with somewhat thicker paper. Copy quality very variable. Authors: Irion, Mörike, Huber. All letters in…
Continuation of C-5-1.12, used by B. Lüthi, with the same characteristics, but no page-numbers (probably 150 pp. altogether) and no rear index. The bulk of the letters addressed to Basel Mission colleagues, and in German. Approx. parallel to…
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