This folder has no index. It is divided into three sub-folders for the three Basel Mission districts in India. It contains largely, but not exclusively, English-language materials from Indian institutions, congregations and individuals welcoming…
- minutes of a missionaries’ conference in Mangalore Oct. 1928 - duplicated minutes and papers from the General Missionaries’ Conference in Mangalore 29th Jan-1st Feb 1929. - letters sent to Hartenstein by Wilhelm Burckhardt, President of the Basel…
Cardboard folder in a filing box Probably from Dr Lombard’s private office, containing miscellaneous materials about India and Udipi. 1928-54. NB another collection of private letters from Eva Lombard is filed at C-10.7.3.
Correspondence from 1926-7. P. Burckhardt was a member of the Kanarese Mission staff in Udipi, Wilhelm Burckhardt, his cousin, was president of the Basel Mission. It looks as if this file was generated in Basel among the papers of Wilhelm…
Judging by the handwritten notes and index, the contents of this 4.5 cm ring-book came from the office of Hans Huppenbauer. They are divided into the sections: Personal Hartenstein’s journeys of inspection Indian officials financial Indian…
An old-fashioned "Steiner’s Schnellordner", an 8 cm ring-book containing correspondence with the missionaries in the years noted above. F. Mack’s section includes at the beginning an autobiographical sketch written by Mack’s future wife, Maria…
contains correspondence with other addressees, alphabetically ordered, and with a very wide chronological focus. It includes some letters addressed to other Basel missionaries as early as 1918, as well as materials dated to the late 1940s. …
See also C-4-6.14 above, C-4-6.16 below, and ADD ON files 2090.1, 2091.1 and 2100 on pp. 151-152. C-4-15 consists of two 8 cm ring-books. C-4-6.15a contains, broadly, the exchange of correspondence Hartenstein/Streckeisen in 1936-9.
Three files each 3 cm, which have evidently existed for some time, containing exchanges of correspondence between Director Hartenstein and these three members of the mission staff in India. They are packed together in an A-4 folding box., NB for…
A 3 cm ring-book, covering the years 1935-8. A pencil note indicates that it is Renz’ exchange of letters with Diredtor Hartenstein. (see also C-4-6.14 below)
(an 8 cm ringbook) covers the years 1933-6, when Jonas Meyer was Field Secretary. The file contains primarily the exchange of correspondence Meyer/Hartenstein, though enclosures to Meyer’s letters often include important documents from other…
(a 3 cm ring-book) covers the years 1929-32., when Jonas Meyer was Chairman of the South Mahratta District. It includes what looks like an important collection of original minutes from those years. NB Dr Meyer’s handwriting is in the Latin and not…
Two thin (3 cm) ring books (a & b), a standard (8 cm) ring book (c) and a thin file (d). File C-4-6.7a contains correspondence with Martin Bez, who was in charge of the Press/Bookdepot 1932-1937. File C-4-6.7b is entitled "Reports, Bookshop, Press"…
Like C-4-6.4 the contents of this file are arranged chronologically with the oldest letters at the rear. It seems to be a collection of working correspondence, with, in addition circulars to the Indian missionaries and some draft circulars. The most…
This file consists of 6 alphabetical registers, 2 each for Malabar, South Kanara and South Mahratta. The principle seems to be that in the first alphabetical register materials for each region are collected in English and Indian languages, in the…
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