Difficulties between the missionaries in Abettifi had at times been severe. Also missionary Dilger seems to have been extremely careless with records. Not only were the financial records in a mess, the only register of members kept at all up to date…
Six Christians have had to be excluded in the six months since he came to Abetifi - he is now not surprised that Brother Marquart resigned through despair, though he feels he should have done more to gain the advice of an experienced man. Brother…
Part I of this report concerns events in Adesawaase during the smallpox epidemic. It includes the information that there was a priest of Dente in Koforidua called Kwadwo Boadu - the Dente is described as 'imported from Krakye' and is linked with the…
Describing the clothing in which Christians attend street-preaching. One was barefoot, bare-headed wearing only a blue and white striped cloth from Selaga, another wore a length of European cloth and a European hat: another wore with his cloth a…
This report is printed in Heidenbote 1887 pp67ff. The printed version is a case study in relations between the mission and slavery in Kwahu before the Protectorate was declared. It also includes an exchange rate of 18 dollars to 90 Francs. Schmid…
This letter is partly printed in Heidenbote 1887 p2f. Schmid mentions rice as especially the crop of Mpraeso, Nkwatia and Bepong. There are weather statistics - temperature and rainfall for the months June-September 1886. They have experienced great…
Mostly a letter concerned with his personal situation and the history of illnesses suffered by him and his wife since their return to the Coast. However, he makes two points about the way their having servants in fact exacerbated their difficulties -…
He reports extensive repairs needed by the Mission house at ground level, especially substitution of stone fundaments for the heavily damaged wooden balks used by the first builders.
Offers as the main explanations for the non-return of the 7 boys after the Christmas holidays as people not understanding the worth of the school, and not wanting their sons to become Christians. He is especially sad about 2 of the non-returned –…
Since Dilger's leaving he has been especially busy with people coming to the station - some bring gifts of yams, rice, maize, pepper, groundnuts, onions, hens and eggs - others come with problems. The two most persistent of the latter are the request…
Report of his first months on the Gold Coast (he first arrived in Abetifi early in December). He had travelled from Akropong to Abetifi with no-one among his attendants able to speak English. And in Abetifi he thinks, apart from the Catechists no-one…
A report for the last quarter of 1885 and for the Boy’s Boarding School over the course of the whole year. His big fever followed on a preaching trip to Abene end Akankawaase. At Christmas the Abetifi church was filled with a congregation both of…
The Kwahu boys who had gone to a middle school were apparently John Kwasi Wiredu, Daniel Kwadwo Bre, David Kweku Fori, Immanuel Kofi Adakwa. The first was expelled, the other three had run away. Tschopp reports much opposition to schooling in Abetifi…
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