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Financial. The trees he bought from London do well.

News on journey and arrival, wanted to leave Ussu the very next morning after his arrival in order to travel to Akropong.

He has been preaching regularly in the Wesleyan chapel at Akropong, and made a 5 day journey to the Afram Volta confluence specifically to Dode, where he says the people are of great religiosity. In letter No 20, he also discusses the possibilities…

Contains a statement of his determination to remain in Africa.

Notifying the Committee of his decision to leave Gyadam, and saying that he plans to settle among the Kamanas at the confluence of the Volta and Afram, 8 hours up river from Dauromadam. He says that 8 days will take him to Dodi, from which it is an…

Includes information on his labour force while building the mission station on the hill. He has required 5 masons as follows: 1 is an Accra man who was previously sawing wood for him 1 is an Accra man who had a debt of 413 Thaler which Süss paid, and…

Comments that it is nearly time for the Christian community to migrate out of Gyadam to the environs of the mission station – that this will be good for them, since they have suffered a fair amount of teasing in the town. Also if they are going to…

Describes the building of the station on the hill - he apparently has assembled from the town a labour force of 6 sawyers, 6 masons, 6 water carriers, and several other people able to do a variety of tasks, along with a dozen other people who work…

The bulk of this letter is printed in the appendix to the annual report 1858, p. 120ff. It concerns the death of Missionary Hönger at Gyadam. Additional material mostly concerns short-term practical questions concerned with the station. A particular…

Gives additional information over his movements after leaving Gyadam in 1856. Decided in Gyadam to settle in the Kofrodua district, primarily in order to carry on trading and farming. Many people would be able to settle there in time. The only…

(Süss returned to Gyadam at the end of October 1857). Announces the baptism of several people on Christmas Day. (1.) A man in his early 30s who had got keep into debt in trade, but had been working to pay off the debts and has now done so. Old name…

Goes over some parts of the history again about the time of Baum's arrival he had had to spend 6 weeks in bed with a wound in his foot, and during the palaver had been much troubled by sleeplessness, headaches etc. He describes the main pressures…

The letter includes some account of happenings in Gyadam. Before his departure he had prepared some people for baptism - a Gyadam young man, an Accra man who had been living in Gyadam for several years, and several of our own people. In his version…

A new missionary, Baum, arrived on 24 April. Süss himself has bought 4 free slaves to work for him, and Baum has bought 2 pawns. This is a big enough group for the Christian liturgies. Süss feels a very heavy responsibility towards bringing these…

This letter is printed in full apparently with no editing in the appendix to the Annual Report for 1856, p. 101f.

The letter is summarised in Missionsmagazin 1855, vol II pp.37-38). Additional material from the text: The close relations between Süss and collector Vether were genuine on both sides. David Asante was also impressed with him. The man had been a…

In a postscript he comments that the Gyadam people have found a new source of gold, and that is one reason why the idea of emigrating to Fante has been dropped again.

The text of the letter is fully printed in Missionsmagazin 1855, pp. 56-58.

Presents the possibility of the Gyadam chief moving as very real, to a site three days’ journey away 'in Fanteland’. Three reasons are offered two repeat those offered in the earlier letter (vis-a-vis the Asantehene ‘with whom Agyemang has constant…

The Gyadam people will not send their children to school unless Süss gives them clothes. But the Sunday services are well attended. He offers the first appreciation of the political situation in Gyadam – they are troubled from without by the threat…
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