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…
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: 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.
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...…
Written from Akropong. On Hanson's Accra gospels: handy (pp 1-3). On his plans for linguist work as directed by the committee: A primer is in the writing, a grammar and dictionary will take time. For the translation of the Bible Hanson has made a…
On matters of the government grant to the school. Winniet had promised the same amount as that given formerly by the Danes. Bannermann, his successor, a gentleman but against the mission, was against it. Payment therefore deferred and only £ 100…
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