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About the progress in school and the difficulties: Twi spelling not yet fixed enough, children admitted into school at odd times, lack of teachers (pp 1-2). Trouble with termites in house (p 2). Suicide of Adukrum poisoner. Difficulties of the…

Pleads for Thompson: He should be given a school in the interior in future (p 1). How he learns Twi: comparing dictionaries and working out his own (p 2). Evening school with the West Indians. Personal matters between schiedt and Stanger (p 3).…

Parts printed: Heidenbote 1848, pp 74-75 (funeral sacrifice at Tutu, noisy interruption of services). Not printed: Baptism of the first fruits. Baptismal lessons with Jonathan Bekoe Palmer begun. His father a good man (pp 1-2). Elders wanted to…

Tells the inspector that it had always been his desire to go to Africa and that he was inwardly disappointed, when first told to go to North America, but then he submitted and was appointed to Akropong to his great joy.

Sad that perhaps H.N. Riis will not come out soon, needed for the institute planned for schoolteachers. Hope in school: A seven year old school boy refuses to besmear himself with white clay for his soul (p 1). Without being asked, the children…

Asks for a wife. Knows a Sophie Weigle. Might she not be the person the Lord wanted for him?

Palaver with the West Indians about higher salary. Widmann angry that they demand it. Dieterle sees the need for higher salaries and better houses. He loves the West Indians and understands that the bitterness is still a heritage from the time of…

The work he does is quite different from what he thought. He has nothing to do with the labour of the West Indians and with carpentry. Mr. Mohr is taking good care of this. He found the wood of the sawing machine all rotten and eaten by termites. He…

Reports Governor Usher's request, dated 10 February 1880 that Buck should come to Accra to serve as witness in the case against Ata.

In reply to the Basel question what practical results the proclamation of slave-emancipation has had on the slaves themselves, Dieterle writes that in Tutu, Asantema (Obosomase), Afwerase, Aburi and many farming villages, on the whole only individual…

More on the Juaben problem. He quotes a reply to his letter to Abetifi from Werner dd 16 August. In Abetifi they were surprised to hear of troubles developing between Asante and Juaben. All is quiet there, and no-one grudges the Juabenhene his fate…

The first three pages report the development of the Juaben affair. The Governor had said in his letter that in the event of trouble he could not extend protection to the Abetifi missionaries. Dieterle repeats that so far as he knows no trouble is in…

Includes a substantial account of a journey through Krobo and Shai, and a stay of some days on Krobo Mountain.

Was four months away from Akropong this year: To Meischel who was sick, later also, when his wife was sick. Now to Christiansborg where Stanger is overburdened with work. Extracts from Diary: May 26th: An old man says at Akropong: I and my six wives…

Not much time to learn Twi. School useful for him, becomes freer to preach in English (p 1). Palaver of a young man who wanted to kill his uncle by magic and the punishment he got (pp 1-2). Street preaching at Davu. Visit by Buafo, the second after…

Details on the changes necessary in Twi spelling

Requirements for drugs, library, sewing classes, household, tools.

pp 1-2: Marriage matter. p 3: Request for the model of an oil press of a simple type. The plan they have are too complicated. Need for saws and instructions for the making of tobacco. p 4: Requests for school books and for watches for the West…

Urge for permission to marry. Do not want to wait another three to four years.

Account on the attempts to cultivate plants, attempts to make manure (p 2) The West Indians begin to plant. The missionaries work on their farms also to show them how to do it (p 3). Success of Mr. Mohr's farm. Request for seeds of breadfruit tree…
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