| Description | Dated 8 January. Mr Weiss has arrived and is now working with Mr Haas on letter-founding and cutting; after Mrs Weiss's confinement they will go to Malta; cannot find two more 'able and pious' printers; 'it is extremely difficult to find out a moral character among this class of people'; suggests that they train as printers some of the missionary students who do not have capacity to learn 4 or 5 languages as most students do; a sister of Mr Schaffter of Mayaveram, French, aged 28, wishes to be sent with her brother to work in an Indian girls' school; would like one of the Basel students who is going to Liberia to take the practical medicine course at Islington. |