Folder containing 4 items, all of them concerning the editing of a hymn-book in the Twi language (discussions about the usefulness of a hymn-book with tunes etc.)
letters by various missionaries concerning the reprinting of the Old Testament in Twi, some letters by the British and Foreign Bible Society, also containing lists of printing mistakes in the Old Testament of the Twi-Bible
Folder containing 9 items: 7 letters concerning the editing of two new reading-books for Primary schools and a 29 page report written by Missionary Rottmann.
Letters written by various missionaries, e.g. Johannes Zimmermann and Christian Buhl, and the British and Foreign Bible Society concerning the printing of literature in the Ga language. Several letters about the new edition of the Ga-bible and the…
miscellaneous letters and items concerning the printing and editing of Ga and Twi literature, inter al. a printed manuscript of the "order for catechists" and some pages of a Twi hymn-book, both in Twi
Copies of yearly reports meant to be published in the Bremen Mission monthly. Written in Lome by F. A. Aku, Th. Sedode, R. Kwami; concerning the time when the French authorities took over
Report of the last School Examinations by the British Colonial Authorities in Lome, 1920. Governor Guggisberg on Character. Address held in Abetifi (Ghana), copied from "West African Weekly"
9 items, mainly letters and reports written by Africans either in German or Ewe. One letter (Tove, 16.12.1912) about some trouble with "revolutionary" catechists, written in 1910
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