It encloses a 3 pp. English letter from CMS headquarters in London dd. 14th Feb. 1880 about the legal position of converted young women who were married as children to Hindu husbands, and a 5 p. English Memorandum from Graeter, evidently on the same…
J. Huber, Basel, 25th June 1875 letter to the BM Inspector (2 pp.) J. Huber 2-p. Memorandum on its use against fever (and but with the remark that 2 copies were sent to Africa on 7th July 1875) (2 copies) C.G.Engelmann’s notes, 4 pp., dated Basel…
There is no indication of a family relationship between this Dr Lombard and the Dr Lombard who later worked for the Kanarese and Basel Mission for decades in Karnataka.
On questioning the dead, magic, witchcraft, demons, amulets and secret medicines in India - written by J. Leonberger and dated Fellbach 16th Jan. 1864.
Songs of important poets....the first 11 and the 24th poems of the Dasaropada, which the present translator published in lithographic form in Mangalore in 1850. German MS von H. Mögling, 11 pp., dd. 1859 (with one page of an accompanying letter to…
Huber to Basel 25th May 1852, 1 p. German introduction and then 11p. transcript in English of a speech given by I. Scudder commenting on Graul’s defence of the retention of caste in the Leipzig Mission. Scudder’s comments are translated into German…
Gutachten zum Bau einer Kapelle beim Schulhaus von Budschapur; Gutachten zur Erneuerung des Daches der Mädchenanstalt in Mulki; Gutachten zur Erstellung einer Wohnung für einen ledigen Missionar auf der Station Wanyankullam. Durchschlag des Originals…
gebunden, mit handschriftlichen Ergänzungen, gedruckt in Mangalore von Stolz & Reuther. Zuhinterst eingebunden auch ein "Verzeichnis der in den Stations-Bibliotheken der Basler Mission in West-Africa vorhandenen Bücher 1868" (vergleiche J.215) sowie…
Songs of the Saints (who forswear the world and devote themselves to Vishnu) translation [into German] of the first of the old Kannada poems, which were printed in Mangalore in 1850. 20 MS pp., the poems numbered from 1-28. Presumably from G. Weigle…
German text with no indications of origins etc, but probably like C-10.56,9 and C-10.56,6 (though in a different handwriting) translations from Kannada poetry in the Bibliotheca Carnataca.
- Zur Geschichte der ostind. Stationen 1841/1851 / On the history of the [Basel Mission] stations in India 1841/1851. NB the dates on the folder are not comprehensive - it contains material up to 1859 in some cases. Ca. 40 pp. of material which,…
Largely English, some Malayalam. A careful detailed census of the institutions in Bosshardt’s responsibility. Many lists of names of people involved in the mission station in Codacal: Presbytery, Catechists, Bible Women, Schoolmasters, Colporteurs,…
Ed. & compiled by K.K.N. Kurup, Calicut University, 22 foolscap pp typescript, 1987. Transcripts of 6-monthly reports sent to Basel in English by the catechist Samuel Ambat 1899-1905.
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