| Description | Correspondence and papers, giving news of the Society, its training institution, students and missionaries including biographical information, testimonials and correspondence about men who went out under the CMS and reports of work in areas where CMS did not have mission stations.
The letters are annotated with the name of correspondents, date received, date of committee meeting at which the item was considered and brief notes of action taken.
/1-203: letters from Secretaries of the Basel Evangelical Missionary Society, 1820-1850.
/204-222: letters and papers listed alphabetically by name of correspondent, 1820-1848.
/223-238: printed papers [in French and German] comprising monthly extracts of correspondence received by the Society's committee, 1822-1823 and 1828: including correspondence from Barenbruck, Jetter, Maisch, Reichardt, Deininger, Baer, Betzner, Blumhardt, Bormeister, Curfess, Dittrich, Durr, Hohenacher, Josenhans, Kindlinger, King, Knill, Lang, Dr Paterson, Saltet, Steinkopf, Winckler and Zaremba and others.
/239-245: miscellaneous papers, including Basel Institution papers, 1827-1838. |
| Administrative History | The Society was founded in 1815. The Basel Institution (also referred to as the Missionary Seminary) that was established in connection with the Society admitted its first students in 1916 under the charge of Reverend Christian Gottlieb Blumhardt ('Theophilus' in the CMS records).
Secretary (Inspector/Director)
1815-1838: Reverend 'Theophilus' Blumhardt
1839-1849: Dr William Hoffmann
1850: J. Josenhans |