| Description | Dated 16 July. Commends four missionary candidates (Nicholas [sic] Christian Haastrup [Niels Christian Haastrup], John Christian Wendnagel, James Baumann and David Henry Schmid) and gives testimonials. Schlienz arrived from Malta a fortnight ago; he is very ill with 'an abdominal malady, which has already darkened his mind and intellect'; it will be a year before he is well again. Winckler is still ill at Stuttgart; Gobat has gone to Creuzenach. |