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Includes a list of the new catechumens during the year, with short biographies of most.

The king has presented him the land for the mission station, though to avoid future difficulties, Süss gave the king a present at the conclusion of the transaction. The king has in the past given him food in order to help him remain in Gyadam.

The Gyadam people will not send their children to school unless Süss gives them clothes. But the Sunday services are well attended. He offers the first appreciation of the political situation in Gyadam – they are troubled from without by the threat…

Presents the possibility of the Gyadam chief moving as very real, to a site three days’ journey away 'in Fanteland’. Three reasons are offered two repeat those offered in the earlier letter (vis-a-vis the Asantehene ‘with whom Agyemang has constant…

The text of the letter is fully printed in Missionsmagazin 1855, pp. 56-58.

In a postscript he comments that the Gyadam people have found a new source of gold, and that is one reason why the idea of emigrating to Fante has been dropped again.

The letter is summarised in Missionsmagazin 1855, vol II pp.37-38). Additional material from the text: The close relations between Süss and collector Vether were genuine on both sides. David Asante was also impressed with him. The man had been a…

This letter is printed in full apparently with no editing in the appendix to the Annual Report for 1856, p. 101f.

Report of a journey to Akwamu. Little information on the journey through Krobo. The first Akwamu town reached was Kotropee, apparently on the bank of the Volta, A fetish priest here .forbade the catechist trainees from entering any of the houses…

A new missionary, Baum, arrived on 24 April. Süss himself has bought 4 free slaves to work for him, and Baum has bought 2 pawns. This is a big enough group for the Christian liturgies. Süss feels a very heavy responsibility towards bringing these…

The report is concerned with Baum’s first journey to Gyadam, made difficult by the fact that he was severely ill during the journey, was also alone, and plague by unreliable carriers whom he seems not to have handled very firmly. Another point of…

The first part of the letter is dominated by the problem of economic relations with the local population. Baum writes that they are open beggars, and not above stealing what they cannot make for themselves. Apparently they have sayings (proverbs) “We…

The letter includes some account of happenings in Gyadam. Before his departure he had prepared some people for baptism - a Gyadam young man, an Accra man who had been living in Gyadam for several years, and several of our own people. In his version…

Goes over some parts of the history again about the time of Baum's arrival he had had to spend 6 weeks in bed with a wound in his foot, and during the palaver had been much troubled by sleeplessness, headaches etc. He describes the main pressures…

Has decided to stay on in Gyadam alone and says will be therefore have to do without the help of the Mission. Therefore he has been working in the fields. Technologically he seems to be introducing the axe and scythe. He complains about the way he…

Enthält 41 Briefe und Berichte von / Contains 41 letters and reports from : Ed. B. Andrews, Jakob Lindenmeyer, Christoph Wilhelm Locher, Wilhelmine Maurer, Hermann Ludwig Rottmann, Eberhard Schall, Amalie Steinhauser, Johann Georg Widmann, Johannes…

Enthält 12 Briefe und Berichte von / Contains 12 letters and reports from : Jakob Heck, Thomas Kwatei, Heinrich Laissle, Michael Ried, August Steinhauser

Enthält 7 Briefe und Berichte von / Contains 7 letters and reports from : Johann Christian Dieterle, Abraham Hönger, Joh. Adam Mader, Johann Georg Widmann

Enthält 49 Briefe und Berichte von / Contains 49 letters and reports from : Gottlieb Christaller, Johann Christian Dieterle, Johannes Haas, Joh. Adam Mader, Johann Georg Widmann, Rosine Widmann, Emilie Ziegler, Johannes Zimmermann

It emerges from the text that he is keeping pigs and asking if he can sell the pork, spending his times of health in carpentry. The news of the sending out of two new missionaries to Gyadam arrived on a day when he could not read his letter till the…
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