Salary accounts of the teachers: 5 teachers and one monitor in the boys' school; second school (mixed: 2 salaried teachers and a number of none salaried monitors. Third school (girls) with three teachers. There is also a paid local preacher. The…
About requirements (pp 1-2). School materials ordered have still not arrived (p 2). Financial matters. Hospitality does not come too costly. Halleur not dead but staying with the Bapttsts at Fernando Po. Schmidt from Tantum has returned to Europe (p…
Rain on the Coast great. 50 houses at Ussu and their chapel under construction collapsed. Difficulties of Meischel: Employs an Accra man who has as a trophy an elbow of Owusu Akyem which he himself cut off. The Accra laborers of Meischel therefore…
Glad that the committee agrees to the taking over of school and congregation from the government. These have been handed over to the mission even before the home boards's decision had arrived. Reason why this happened: Danish teachers resigned,…
No 16 almost unreadable, No 17 readable copy of No 16. Personal affairs: A long account of his palaver with the other missionaries in his light. The teacher of Teshi ran away.
The Danish Government has now more soldiers and therefore the slave trade can be suppressed better. Many liberated slaves, however, are recaptured. The Governor asked the mission, whether they would not settle liberated slaves with a missionary on…
Large parts printed: Heidenbote 1849, pp 47-49. Entries for 29th-30th March include descriptions of the Plantation area on the Accra plains, where he had a short rest-stay. Actually staying at the Lutterodt plantation - by the house a small laid out…
Mainly personal: Marriage request repeated, about his insufficient housing, the reaction of the West Indians to the letter of the committee giving them a date to decide themselves. Walker thinks the letter bad, the Akropong people good. About the…
Sad that the committee reproached him to have too luxurious building plans. The letter arrived when rain was dropping into his house. Urges for a wife, necessary for the work among the women and to get girls for the school.
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