Looks like the contents of a loose-leaf file with an alphabetical register (though the latter is largely unused), 3.5 cm thick. Condition of paper/ink: pretty good. Probably from Eidenbenz’ own office. Primarily administrative and financial. Much…
Looks like contents of a loose-leaf file, approx. 4 cm. thick. Condition: fairly good. Letters received by the administration of the Mission’s South Canara district, in chronological order 1914-19, many in English.
A foolscap-size set of papers bound together, the paper block between the covers c. 1.5cm thick. The file consists of two parts. One, ca. 100 pages, is handwritten on good quality paper and in a good state. The second is tissue-paper copies whose…
The remains of a file like C-5-4.7, but of quarto format. The block of papers between the covers is c. 4 cm thick, but only about two-thirds of the anchorages have been used. The anchorages have been made from papers used in producing the "Bombay…
Quarto school exercise book, 1 cm thick. Condition: good (except that the binding is broken and the cover lost). Minutes of Presbyterien/Aeltestenkonferenzen - i.e. joint meetings of the local missionary and church elders. Kaundinya is involved…
Remains of a file like C-5-4.7, foolscap format, paper block between covers 1.5 cm thick. Collection of letters addressed to the School Conference in Mangalore 1895-1906, both from Basel and from correspondents in India, some of whom wrote in…
Diese Akten befinden sich zum Teil in einem sehr schlechten Zustand!!! - Verzeichnis - Korrespondenz mit S. Hebich, Juni 1853 - August.1854, Zirkulare und Protokolle - Korrespondenz mit S. Hebich, September - Dezember 1854 - Protokoll der…
Korrespondenz unter anderem mit H. Kühner, B. Lüthi und den Trustees of the Casamajor Fund. / Correspondence with, amongst others, H. Kühner, B. Lüthi and the Trustees of the Casamajor Fund.
- Korrespondenz und Arbeitspapiere, zum Teil undatiert, in Deutsch und Tulu. 1883-1897 - Tulu Liturgie: Protokolle 1877-1896. 1 Protokoll ist undatiert. / - Correspondence and working papers, some of which are undated, in German and Tulu. 1883–1897…
Korrespondenz zwischen Inspektor Oehler und Br. Ernst. 1. Dezember 1905 - 7 November 1912. Sehr schlechter Zustand. / Correspondence between Inspector Oehler and Brother Ernst. 1 December 1905 – 7 November 1912. In very poor condition.
Papers concerning questions about the Tulu bible translation and liturgy from the 1870s and 1880s, apparently from the desk of Rev. Ritter. Perhaps 100 pp altogether, lying together in a folder.
A substantial collection of printed regulations and circulars, originating both in Basel and in the Mission’s central administration in India. The earliest date from the 1860s, the latest from 1913. NB it includes a special collection of printed…
Folder with very miscellaneous contents, which lay in this box, but seem to have no organic link with any of the other contents listed above. It includes: - 8a Die Geschichte des Filiales Coilandy bis zur Einweihung der 2. Cappelle 17. Feb. 1884…
Folder, with different documents: - pp. 75-106 of a Station Chronicle (1904-1908). From a quarto format exercise book. German, in the old German handwriting. Condition fairly good - uniform paper discolouration, but still fairly slight, and no…
Mostly foolscap format papers, with the individual annual reports bound together, but no indication that the whole block of paper (25 cm) was ever a physical unit. Condition: paper, ink, pretty good. This is presumably a collection of the draft…
Remains of bound volume, foolscap format, with a main set of pages numbered 5-150, but with unnumbered pages both before and after. Block of paper c. 0.7 cm thick. Condition moderate - pages lost at beginning and end, and ink spread causing some…
Evidently contents of a loose-leaf file c. 1.5 cm thick. The key to the organisation of the contents is lost. Perhaps 50% are letters etc from Basel, the rest local correspondence between missionaries in India. Very few documents are from…
Remains of a bound volume, cover lost, but most pages still reliably bound together. No consecutive page numbers, block of paper 1.8 cm thick, perhaps one-fifth not used. Conservation standard: pretty good. Minutes of the conferences of the…
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