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Thanks for schoolbooks sent. Requirements: drugs and school utilities.

Translation work for baptismal candidates, baptism of five boys, resistance of paganism (David Asante's mother angry, because David speaks as Mader's interpreter against the fetish and the customs). Hope for a school at Abiriw. Case of church…

On the character of the West Indians, personal.

Personal on Stanger's character and his relation to the committee.

Sends the translation of the biblical stories into Twi

Personal on Miller palaver (A. Clerk does not want Rosine Miller as wife, Miller angry) (pp 1-3). Present dry period makes food costly. People plant too little, some people only pepper, salt and palm wine as food. Some people treat their sheep like…

News of baptism of his son Nathanael David.

News of birth of a son.

Why he cannot preach in Twi yet. Only David Asante would be suitable for training in Europe.

About discipline in the seminary. New candidates first to be taken as houseboys, so that they can observe their character.

Personal. Will send biblical stories in Twi translation soon.

Mainly personal. Cases of Church discipline. Jonathan Palmer should be married, the West Indian Miller does not want to give him his daughter (pp 1-3). Adum had returned and claims the paramount stool again (pp 3-4).

Personal introduction (p 1). Extracts from diary. Parts printed: Heidenbote 1850, p 97 (death of convert Okoi). Not printed: Short note about transfer of authority, visits, departure of Meischel and Widmann. Arrival of the new brethren and brides,…

Requirements: New turner's tools, Chinin, vaccination serum against small pox, school books, Text books for the college (Dr. Barth's books).

Extracts from his diary: February 4th: visit of the village of an influential man – patriarch - likes feeling of the place. To Aburi because of sickness of Meischel. Story of Alexander Clerk’s true repentance over his fall with Ann Rochester.…

Personal. Mrs. Widmann works hard and they have a good relation to her, but for his own needs he still wants a wife.

Urgent request for textbooks and school materials.

Personal: Regrets that personal opinion on Mrs. Widmann has been misquoted in public. Treat private letters as private.

Sorry he is not yet able to do without an interpreter. Reason: Much work with the school and the college where he teaches 12 periods a week and has the supervision, a difficult task to bring them to a regular and well-ordered life. Hopes to find more…

Receipt of school materials acknowledged. Request for test books for the teacher training institute. Disappointed that no seeds from the West Indies arrived.
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