Correspondence to and from Basel, with some local correspondence in addition. (The "General Ausschuss" was the Mission's Executive Committee in Ghana, the "Schulinspektor" the man responsible for Basel Mission Schools.)
The letter is printed in full in Sklavenheim 1898, pp2-7. It is a general account of the progress of the slave-colony to date. There is a Ramseyer letter in Le Missionaire 1898, pp55-57. It does say that they had been advising the Sklavenfreund…
Informs the Basel Committee that he has been able to buy a piece of land opposite the station on the other side of the Bantama Road - this was important because of the danger of being in close proximity with Fante liquor-bars. They received the…
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