A fairly chaotic file. The smallest part at the rear has letters in alphabetical order of author (though letters from Stanley Jones appear both under "J" and "St"...). A number of these are from Indian correspondents. The front four-fifths of the…
Correspondence from Hartenstein’s visit to India in 1928-9. The file has an alphabetical organisation which seems to have been used - not entirely accurately - in respect of people sending letters etc. At the front of the file is a very…
- (1) changes in the budget 1938, budget 1939. - (2) Circulars to Indian members of staff 1934-38. - (3) "On introducing younger brethren to India - and in this sense sisters too" 3 pp. duplicated, no date, no author, but evidently produced in…
Sections on:- "Pension funds, Nilgiris" (relations with the British Methodist Mission, which took over BM work in this part of S. India) - "Kurg & Nilgiris", with special sub-sections W.M.M.S (i.e. British Methodist Mission) Correspondence with G.E.…
The file consists of the same sections as C-4-5.4 though without the special subsections for Koechlin, who with the withdrawal of Karl Hartenstein from Basel at the outbreak of war took on the responsibility as India Inspector.
The file consists of the following sections: National Christian Council (very little) "GA & MC" - i.e. an equivalent for 1939 of C-4-5.3 Correspondence, Streckeisen (including a sub-section "Correspondence Koechlin*-Streckeisen") 5. Correspondence,…
This thin (3.5 cm) file has no index, and is tightly packed......it also appears to be not simply a collection of minutes, but to include correspondence originated both in India and in Basel. It is not always immediately apparent why specific…
The file contains 22 sections, including: (1) [General] Missionaries’ Conference Mangalore Oct. 1928 (2) District Conference Mangalore Oct. 1928 (3) Memo of Indian members of the South Mahratta District Church Board to the BM District Committee Jan.…
The minutes of the conference (13 pp in German) are part of section 1 of this file. The rest of the file consists of some 35 sections of documentation presented to the Conference, or in some other way linked to it. NB The index may turn out not to…
NB this file includes 2 sections of correspondence with Indian churchmen: K.R. Karunaker Marcus Sanjiva Rao It also contains correspondence with German ladies running a mission station "Kal Eliya", near Mirigama, in Sri Lanka (they work for the…
P-T. NB this file contains almost no correspondence with Elisabeth Petitpierre - see C-4-4.6 above - but contains a substantial section devoted to Christian Schuler.
Including a very substantial section of correspondence with Dr Eva Lombard, and a long section of letters from Ed. Noverraz (Northern Karnataka) with minutes etc from Indian church bodies.
This file includes correspondence with Martha Goetz about the theology governing womens’ involvement in mission and her special background in a pietist group in Möttlingen(Wurttemberg).
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