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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…

Detailing the stationing of local agents of the mission posted to Asante. Teacher Mensa - to Kwaso, where he has received a friendly reception. Teacher Isaac Tete to Ahenkurow, though to date he has not been able to set up a school through the…

Has just received a letter concerning the free-purchasing of slaves. He is not in favour of this in view of the experience of other stations but in a recent special case he was glad to buy free from the fetish priest of Atie Yaw (Bowu) 2 small girls…

An account mainly of his journey to Abetifi from Europe. At Cape Coast they went ashore and visited Prince Ansah, and Dr Horton who had treated Mrs Ramseyer so well in 1869. The Ramseyers went to Abetifi accompanied by two girls, one of them…

Proposing that Agogo be settled as a European station - the area is too distant from Abetifi to be supervised properly by the missionaries there. The Agogohene has already asked twice for a teacher. This is connected with a new appraisal of the…

Reports his safe homecoming from the Salaga journey after having had no illness on the way. He found Attebubu 8 days journey from Abetifi, but only 3 days from Asante Mampong, which like Nsuta is only 1 ½ days from Kumawu. These towns having broken…

They arrived in Kumasi on September 5th, and were able to meet the Asantehene on the 9th (the delay caused by obsequy customs). Before the Asantehene 'and his chiefs' they tried to make it quite clear what their objective was. They said they had…

2 members of the community have left for Ada - Emmanuel Osabude and Lydia Mamle. Osabude was a key member of the congregations and will be much missed. There are also two, perhaps three, serious catechumen. One is an ex-mason-apprentice of Felzer,…

They arrived in Anum at the end of December, their child having been fed partly by women in the villages who were suckling their own children (12 women helped in this way) and partly by Swiss milk kept in a bottle with a rubber cork. In a postscript…

Reporting a meeting with Okanta, now farming, but with a deep wish to be reaccepted into the Mission at a later date.

Informs the Basel Committee that he has been able to buy a piece of land opposite the station on the other side of the Bantama Road - this was important because of the danger of being in close proximity with Fante liquor-bars. They received the…

He sends in the accounts of the slave home in the second half of 1897. Expenditure £40, which with the gifts left only £3 to be covered by the Mission.

Is a protest against the ruling which he has just heard of, that Kwahu boys in the Begoro Middle School will in future have to provide their own money for food.

Outlines the political situation in reply to a letter from Basel concerned about the security of resources invested in Kumasi missionary buildings. He does not think Samory is a danger because he does not believe Samory wants to attack the English,…

Pleads to be spared from being appointed General Praeses on the Gold Coast when Müller retires mostly on the grounds that they do not want to be taken away from Kumasi - it has been a ‘sweet' experience for them to feel the trust that the Asante…

Reports a case in which the (ex-slave) housemother of the ex-slave children had been found involved in the theft of two of the young girls. A French version is printed in full in Le Missionaire 1897 pp90ff. Ramseyer discovered what had happened to…

The Governor has explained that while the English Government has provision for assisting slaves freed on the sea, there is no provision for assisting slaves freed on land – however he made a (presumably personal) donation of £20. He was present at a…

Includes the matter of posting another woman to Kumasi.

Includes the accounts of the slave-home for the period 1st January – 5th July 1897, mostly “on biscuits”.

He has asked the British Government for financial assistance over the orphanage he is running for slave children. There is a letter from Ramseyer in the Sklavenfreund pp162-165 dd. 14 June 1897, reporting on the situation in the freed slave colony,…
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