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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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 -…
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, …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
An A-4 tear-off or scratch pad, with 200 numbered sheets, though the first 19 sheets have been torn off. It has been used to make carbon-paper copies. Condition: moderate or slightly better. The paper is discolouring uniformly. There is some…
A substantial volume (31x24x3.8 cm). The pages are not numbered, but judging by C-5-1.28 it will contain c. 450 pp., on at least 400 pp. of which tissue-paper copies of letters to India from the Director and the India Inspector in Basel are…
The successor to C-5-1.27. A substantial volume (31x24x4cm dimensions inside the binding) containing 487 numbered pages. 319 of these pages are used as mounts for copies of letters to India from the India Inspector in Basel. From p. 88 (Dec. 1912)…
497-page tissue-paper copy book, of which only pp. 1-193 and 497 were used, covering the years 1907-1919. Authors: Vogel, Eidenbenz Although the draft guide to the India Archive identified this as a copy-book generated in Kodakal, closer…
NB the title is neither modern, nor original Pages of a small (28x18x1.5 cm) book (cover lost) with stout paper into which important documents appear to have been copied. Condition: good (except that the cover is missing). The earliest documents…
School exercise book format, the first 33 pages have been numbered by hand (but 33 pages is probably somewhat less than half the whole book). Condition: severely damaged by insects/worms, and towards the end heavy ink-spread makes the documents…
Small (22.5x18x0.7 cm) school exercise book with original copies of minutes of the General Conference Executive Committee for the years given. Pages not numbered. The minutes reflect intensive meetings in 1886 and the first half of 1887. In the other…
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