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Widmann must go home on health reasons.

Safe arrival on the coast.

Thanks for sending their wives.

Annual report for 1849. Printed: Jahresbericht 1850, pp 188-201 (written on home leave).

Sickness. Cured with chinin (p 1). About the plantation: Coffee and arrowroot plantation increased. They no longer need to buy plantains or Bananas. Zimmermann brought much seed, will try out lucerne ("Klee") and cattle rearing. A stable shall be…

About their arrival, journey to Akropong and marriage.

Thanks for the wife sent to him, is very happy. Concentrates on coffee and arrowroot. Preparing a burial ground, bordering it with Mango trees.

Personal introduction (p 1). Extracts from diary. Parts printed: Heidenbote 1850, p 97 (death of convert Okoi). Not printed: Short note about transfer of authority, visits, departure of Meischel and Widmann. Arrival of the new brethren and brides,…

Printed: Heidenbote 1850, pp 99-100 William Hoffmann: Send more missionaries. Difficulties of the preaching. Jonathan Palmer: When he first saw the missionaries, he thought they would catch him. Then he got acquainted with them, became a schoolboy…

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

Personal news

Mainly personal. Cases of Church discipline. Jonathan Palmer should be married, the West Indian Miller does not want to give him his daughter (pp 1-3). Adum had returned and claims the paramount stool again (pp 3-4).

Printed: Jahresbericht 1851, pp 213-221 (Annual report for Akropong).

Send more missionaries. Personal news.

Printed: Heidenbote 1851, pp 43-44 (Sickness, school, Teshi) Not printed: Visit to the Donko people at Accra and their Arabic school. Teacher there kind, showed him a Coran and a new testament in modern Arabic. But he only understands literary…

Received committee letter that the delegates of all missionary auxiliary societies had decided that no missionary should come home without the permission of the committee. Personally ready to accept this verdict but against the principle.

A barrel of 39 lbs coffee from Akropong sent to Basel.

Reason why he sent the accounts so late.

Arrival of Süss, glad. Sad that Steinle does not come.

Requirements: Locks, a stove for wood, 1000 sewing needles for school, cotton thread, biblical pictures, picture booklets, pencils, handkerchiefs, sewing implements as confirmation present for girls, knitting needles etc. School textbooks...…
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