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 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,…
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.
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.…
- (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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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"…
(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…
(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, 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)
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…
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.
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