In several months the new mission house should be habitable. They are building it mostly with the help of craftsmen who are only apprentices. The future garden is marked by piles of black earth and they plan a coffee plantation. The most obvious sign…
In mid-January Missionary Kirchner had arrived in Kumasi as a builder-brother, partly against the advice of Müller and against his instructions to remain in Abetifi, but with the encouragement of Mohr, and because he knew of Ramseyer's difficult…
Detailing the stationing of local agents of the mission posted to Asante. Teacher Mensa - to Kwaso, where he has received a friendly reception. Teacher Isaac Tete to Ahenkurow, though to date he has not been able to set up a school through the…
It considers the impact on the Kumasi building plans of the very high cost of building in Kumasi and includes the point that in order to try to improve the supply of water for the station, Ramseyer had had a well sunk 20' in a neighbouring valley,…
In a postscript dd. 26 May 1897 Ramseyer reports the news of Samory and the death of Ferguson, writing briefly that there is a wish broad in Asante that Samory might free them from the English, and nothing that there are very few troops in Kumasi. …
Report of a missionary journey south and east of Kumasi. The bulk of is printed in Le Missionaire 1897, pp70-71. Additional material: The paths were on the whole well-kept. He visited Juaso (Dweso) now ruled by the queen-mother and some elders in…
He has asked the British Government for financial assistance over the orphanage he is running for slave children. There is a letter from Ramseyer in the Sklavenfreund pp162-165 dd. 14 June 1897, reporting on the situation in the freed slave colony,…
Throughout the second part of 1896 and the first part of 1897 there is a running struggle going on between Ramseyer and the Gold Coast Standing Committee over the supply of more staff for Asante. In 1896 this was particularly concerned with the…
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