a) Widmann: In their loneliness, the West Indian Christians are consolation and encouragement for the missionaries. On the West Indians: Printed in Heidenbote 1846, p 35a. Not printed: They lack badly cloth linen and shoes for them, they are not…
Parts printed: Heidenbote 1846, p 35 (ritual murder). Not printed: The sawing machine in not being used. It is a heavy machine, needs 6-8 people to be moved and used and has to be transported from tree to tree. The West Indians are much better at…
Touching account of the death of Sebald (pp 1-2). His own sickness (pp 2-3). Request for more missionaries and why Aburi is a good mission station (p 3). Lessons with Alexander Clerk and Jonas Hosford. Hosford urges to be allowed to go to Antigua…
Glad, that A. Riis at home has acknowledged some of his faults. About the schoolbook: 500 copies are too much, the book needs revision very soon. H.N. Riis does a good job with his grammatical sense. Need for a small printimes press in future. Need…
Detailed explanation of his method of learning the language, of grammatical particularities of Ashanti, and his plan to print a dictionary in his home time, since his disease on the lips necessitates a return as soon as the new brethren arrive.
Financial and economic matters: How to get money, no more trading, labourers paid in cloth, rum needed and why, difficulties that not all West Indians are strong enough to work as sawers and that they have no lighter work, their many attempts with…
Glad of the news about the bride found for him. The description of her fits his requirements. Also glad about the news that new brethren come. Consoled in loneliness when his African boys sing an English hymn. Riis sicker than before, Schiedt sick…
Necessity for H.N. Riis to return to Europe with the next occasion (p 1). About the stationing of the new brethren, why Aburi. Need to occupy stations soon and quicker, Methodists advance. Alexander Clerk should marry, where shall they get the…
Economic matters: Goods have arrived (saws-cloth) but seawater damaged them at the landing. Why the West Indians need so much cloth: it is to be considered as a gift for once, not an annual expenditure (p 1-2). Progress in the school (p 3).
Addressed to Mr. Christ-Sarasin who cares for the economic matters of West Africa. Glad that new brethren and his bride have arrived. Orders: Cloth, saws, carpenter's tools, school materials, watches. His wife is teaching a number of girls she has…
Glad that the operation of H.N. Riis succeeded well. Difficulties for a teacher for West Indians: Alexander Clerk refuses to come to Akropong again. So Dieterle must take care of this school. Difficulties with the West Indians: They demand more and…
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…
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…
1)The West Indiana must give notice of their staying or returning before the 1st of July. The decision of each one will be accepted by the missionaries. 2) No passage of a West Indian brethren staying in the country after April 16th 1848 will be…
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