Reports a murder in Begoro - a slave had been punished by his master for stealing somebody else’s hen (Glatzle explains that the master is held responsible) and in revenge killed his master's wife and a woman who came to help her. The .missionaries…
They are using an asphalted sheet as a temporary roof for the chapel. Over labour and labour troubles; all their Larteh people have left them at the end of August – their most skilled, most hard-working, and most reliable men. Only one skilled mason…
Printed apart from short comments on the missionaries’ health at beginning and end - in Heidenbote 1876 pp94-5. He gives a full list of the Christian names of the people baptised on Ascension Day 1876 with their occupations and one or two sentences…
Apparently printed in full as an appendix to the Mission's annual report for 1876 (pp 113ff). Further news of the building operation and the collection of snails, outline news of the first baptisms and a short note on pawning etc in this part of…
The protocoll contents offers and accounts of expenditures to date. The conference also recommends the application by Catechist Obeng for £1 on account of his recently born son, which the missionaries sponsor on account of the high cost of living in…
The report was apparently printed in full in Heidenbote 1876 p 51ff. It concerns the difficulties of the building process (tree-felling and handling of the labour force, and its recruitment - the impact of the small trade on the Akim labour market) a…
Partly printed in Heidenbote 1876 p33. The main material of interest in the printed passage is the number of candidates for baptism (21 men), the employment of 7 on the building, and the missionaries' determination that they should learn orderly and…
Printed apparently in full as an appendix to the Missions Annual report 1876 p. 92ff. Consists of a description of the station and the buildings thereon: an enumeration of the community not in any great detail, and a final paragraph about food…
Published apparently in toto as an appendix to the Annual Report for 1877 of the mission. It repeats on the whole the content of the letter No. 257. The building (of which some more exact details are given) has been their main business, they have…
A general letter about his life and work. Lamenrs the difficulties - a lack of skilled and trustworthy men (two of the sawyers were from Abokobi, and even these were pressing for higher pay), and his own inability either in twi or English (especially…
Dumartheray war neben seinen Aufgaben in der BM (zweitweise sog. Heimatsekretär) auch Zentralsekretär von Brot für Brüder, und dann der KEM. Innerhalb des Komitees der BM vertrat er jeweils die Anliegen der KEM. In diesem Dossier sind Dokumente…
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