Complete inventory of the possessions of Missionary Müh who died in September 1876. Some months before, Müh had married Lydia Mader, daughter of missionary Mader who was presumably born on the Coast - and her father was still Basel Mission Inspector…
Letter from 21 January 1876 A very cordial letter, asking after the family etc. His ‘impression’ is that the missionaries in Kwahu would have nothing to fear from Asante, although doubtless there will be endeavours made by the king to bring back…
Written in his capacity as 'Praeses’ (Chairman) of the Basel Mission on the Gold Coast. A year ago the Governor (Strahan) urged him to write to him privately if the need ever arose - he did this over he risks of the Kwahu mission, and forwards…
The report is summarised in its main parts in Heidenbote 1876 p 94. He gives a description of the new school garden, which includes inter al. 800 yams and 1000 cocoyams. He has made preaching journeys through Nkronso, Krobo, Wirekyereng (3 Apedwa…
Reports among the hearers at street preachings Asantes engaged in trade. And a dialectic with a fetish priestess from Kwahu whom he met on the streets in Kukurantumi - she called him her brother, since he served God, and she served a son of God, but…
Includes his excuses for not having written an 1875 Year's Report - he was too busy with the installation of the new missionaries in Begoro and Abetifi. Also during the quarter the subordinate personnel on the station changed - Obeng went to Begoro,…
Recalls that in May they had asked for further £300 for building, and in August a further £600. They repeat their earlier requests for a station library, a medical kit and a seal.
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…
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