Guide to the Basel Mission's Cameroon archive

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Title:	Guide to the Basel Mission's Cameroon archive
Authors:	Haas, Waltraud Jenkins, Paul
Year:	1988
Pages:	159
Language:	English
City of publisher:	Basel
Publisher:	Basel Mission
Geographic terms:	Cameroon Switzerland
Subjects:	missions archives
Abstract:	This is a guide to the Cameroon Archive in the Mission House in Basel. The manuscripts described cover the period from 1886, when the Basel Mission started working in Cameroon, until 1948. The bulk of the material is in German. A few of the documents are in English or French, others are in Duala or Mungaka. The guide includes sections on: Preliminary discussions about the Cameroon Mission; Letters and reports from Cameroon 1887-1914; Letters leaving the Mission House, Basel, for addresses in Cameroon 1885-1914; Cameroon correspondence from the period of the First World War until the return of the Basel missionaries to Cameroon, 1925; Correspondence concerning the Basel Mission in Cameroon, 1925-1948; Station records from Cameroon; Financial records; Church census data from 1889; Mission and church regulations; Miscellaneous documents from or about Cameroon in European languages; Duplicated reports about Cameroon; Aids to the use of the Cameroon Archive; Miscellaneous documents in Cameroon languages; Photographs in the Cameroon Archive; Maps, plans and legal documents concerning land.