Abstracts from correspondence in the Basel Mission Archives 1828-1851 made by Dr. Hans Debrunner in 1956. File covering the correspondence of all stations which existed in these years, and including material from missionaries' personal files and…
Ghana-Abstracts from correspondence in the Basel Mission 1850 to 1898, made by P. Jenkins, from 1970 on, approx. 700 pages. The correspondence abstracted here is almost exclusively from Series D-1, mainly from the Twi District, frontier stations…
A file where miscellaneous type-written copies of documents from the D-1 series are collected. The earliest date back to 1848, and are concerned with the West Indians in Akropong, Zimmermann's marriage and explorations in the Volta region. Later a…
Points one to three concern Ramseyer’s general harshness - charging him with treating the Christians like the Asentehens. Points four and six are complaints against low payment - 4 ½ d a day for work in Abetifi 10/- for mercenary work from here to…
Ramseyer’s first letter shortly after hearing that such a petition existed, and getting some idea of its contents. He reports that he is quite ill with the thought that they might be forced to leave their much-loved field of work without answering…
A longer and more considered letter from Ramseyer about the petition. When Ramseyer suggested to Beko that together they should go to Akropong to greet the Inspector in view of his not being able to come to Abetifi, he heard that a letter had already…
Asking for a further grant for the building of their catechist's house - they had already received £30. Mohr in a subscript does not recommend this after the history of the Fankyeneko house.
Asking for consideration of the fact that they have a long distance to go to their homes in Akwapim, and there is a long distance to go to the coast for salt etc., while Akim paths are bad and bearers can only be hired-for 6d-9d per day. Also their…
Asks for a middle school in Akim on the grounds that the Akwapim teachers in Akropong look after their own people better than they do the Akims (this calls the Middle School a Grammar School).
Asks for re-instatement claiming that he has not done this before on the grounds that his mother in law would not permit his wife to become a Christian, but now she is dead. His account of the troubles of the 1870s is that he was not received with…
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