| Description | /1: 9 November 1837: arrived with family 27 July; refers to pension.
/2: 22 January 1838: has been working on biography of his brother, Deocar.
/3: 23 February 1838: financial matters.
/4: 16 March 1838: financial matters.
/5: 7 November 1838: has visited Nurnberg for the first general meeting of the Philologers and Learned Schoolmen and Educators of Youth where he gave two addresses; has another son, born in the Spring.
/6: 27 August 1839: sends biography of brother Deocar, transactions of the Nurnberg conference and copy of his diploma as Doctor of Divinity; refers to financial matters; wife is expecting a child; returns brother's letters that he had borrowed for the biography.
/7: 18 January 1840: financial matters.
/8; 17 February 1840: gives detailed report of his efforts to increase interest in missionary work; attended second annual conference of philologists (at Mannheim) 'in order to convince these influential and respectable men that a missionary is not necessarily an enthusiast, babbler and madman or something not much better, as they are still frequently reported to be'; met the principal of the Lyceum (Latin school) who organised a meeting of interested people to hear Schmid talk about his experiences as a missionary in India; met Lady Spencer, mother of the Bishop of Madras [Chennai]; went to Carlsruhe where he spoke and met many people, then on to Tábingen, Berne, Zurich, Heidelberg and Darmstadt; has been told by the Jena town council to leave Jena as he cannot prove domiciliary rights having forfeited them by his twenty years work abroad with CMS. Appendix: fragment of a sermon of Mr Schultz of Lovenburg against the work of missionary societies with a copy of Schmid's letter in reply to Dr Rohr, Superintendant-General, Weimar, dated 24 March 1839, and his letter to CMS, dated 19 February 1840, concerning administration of Madras [Chennai] Mission with particular reference to the Corresponding Committee.
/9: 14 March 1840: financial matters.
/10: 5 May 1840: still hopes to return to India; has been allowed to stay in Jena a little longer.
/11: 24 July 1840: financial matters.
/12: 2 December 1840: explains rumours of reasons for the demand that he should leave Jena; describes the problems of dealing with 'rationalists'; 'Germany has become so enlightened and tender-feeling that the Dogma of Hell and Satan is very generally held in abhorrence and is considered as utterly incompatible with the love and wisdom of God'; can no longer expect a future post in Weimar; sends conclusion of his address in 1839 to the meeting of Philologists at Mannheim.
/13: Letter written from Ilmenau, Saxe-Weimar, 15 August 1842: has visited Berlin and Hamburg; met the baptised Brahmin Rameien Tiemroth at Hamburg; sends letter for Female Education Society.
/14: 21 December 1842: reports on his activities and progress of mission affairs in Weimar; eldest daughter Hannah Maria has gone to Female Institution at Kornthal to train as teacher for women in India.
/15: 21 April 1843: is visiting Dresden; son Deocar, aged 5, is very ill 'of an inflammation of the brain'.
/16: 22 June 1843: describes future plans; mission work is proscribed in Weimar; has applied for post in Berlin; had considered Kornthal but they hold the 'griesio' Lutheran doctrine of consubstantiation; asks if CMS would send him to Palestine.
/17: 17 August 1843: has applied for post in Prussia; if not successful will go to Kornthal, where he has received letters from his daughter which have changed his opinion of their theological views; recent events in Jena have strengthened the missionary cause.
/18: Letter to CMS Committee, 2 January 1844: sees no prospect of work in Berlin or Kornthal; asks if he may return to India and draw his pension there, thereby enabling him to carry on mission work; his wife, eldest daughter and youngest child will go with him, the three other children will live in England to be educated.
/19: Letter to Pratt, 13 January 1844: has worked in Germany for six years trying to rouse missionary interest but to no effect; therefore has decided to return to mission work in India.
/20: Letter to Coates, 25 April 1844: thanks for Committee's letter allowing him to draw his pension in India; plans to leave with his family in July.
/21: Letter to Coates, 1 July 1844: plan to leave 29 July.
/22: Letter written from Wurtemberg Place, Manor Street, Clapham, London, 20 November 1844: had presented missionary publications to the heir presumptive of the Grand Duchy of Saxe Weimar; gives copy of the letter he received from Crown Prince Carl Alexander; is living at Clapham teaching his children basic English so that they can attend an English school. |