Received cloth, but much spoiled, since thieves broke the parcels open in the canoe. About the building expenses (pp 1-3). Slave trade continues: A captured man from English Accra freed by the missionaries - a Ningo man and a man from Accra trade…
Receipt of school materials acknowledged. Request for test books for the teacher training institute. Disappointed that no seeds from the West Indies arrived.
News about the school. Mrs. Widmann teaches also since there isa lack of teachers, and not only domestic science. Helped by Rosaly Miller. Why no female converts till now.
6-7/1/1848: Excitement about the threating imagined coming of the Governor. The chief in Akira wants them to come to him. 20/1: Visit to Adukrum 12/2: Visit by a Krepe man who brought a present from his chief, to whom he had spoken about the mission…
June 7th: The students built a bathroom and a hen house. Slave trade episode. July 3rd: Opening of the seminary with prayer and reading of the house rules. Lessons: from 8-9 and 11-12 a.m. and 2-4 p.m. Free: 4-5. Manual work: 5-6 p.m. Evening:…
News about his severe sickness which he attracted after his journey to Krobo-Akwamu-Peki in September. Has recovered. Personal matters (Schiedt) and requirements.
About the ordering of goods by the brethren (p 1). Against the custom to give European family names to newly baptized converts (p 2). Difficulties with burial of baptised Mulattos: want to be buried in their own houses and yet to have a Christian…
1) About the transfer of the Government chaplaincy. The chaplain has fallen into the hands of the Negro girls, unsuitable. 2) Financial matter. 3) Wolf has gone to Peki, but the Hamburg Committee does not agree and commands him to go to the Danya (?)…
Stanger pp 1-2, Schiedt (p 3). Matters at Teshi: The school has dropped down to three boys. The bad behavior of Jonas Hosford had been the first blow, the present teacher is also unsuitable, the fetishpriest against it. They say: Our God Laakpa has…
Not happy that the committee does not send out a teacher. A missionary usually not inclined to teach 4 lessons daily. Worried that a third missionary shall come to Christiansborg. Difficulty of living together with Stanger.
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