Jessen (Saintes) from captivity to Bracker. Good health. Other missionary families are also interned in the same camp. Ask for money. Hope that women and children will soon be released home. Please inform your relatives, as postal traffic for pris...
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Jessen (Saintes) from captivity to Bracker. Description of the conditions in the French camp. Announcement that Mrs. Jessen has given birth to a seven-month-old child on the Congo steamer. The small boy as well as the two daughters are easily ill ...
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[Personalakte Peter Jessen] Draft in shorthand (by Bracker?) for a curriculum vitae of Jessen. In it corrections as well as name and place of birth of Jessens wife: 'Botilla geb. Wibe, Ravit'.
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[Personalakte Peter Jessen] Jesen (Saintes) to Bracker about the conditions in captivity. Please bring your wife and children home soon so that they do not have to spend the winter in the camp. Urgent request for money. The Herrnhut brothers in th...
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Jessen (Saintes) from captivity to Bracker. Notification that Bocks are on the ship to Europe. Thanks for sending money and asking for more money. Ask for clothes.
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[Personalakte Peter Jessen] Jessen (Kigoma) to Bracker with report about wife and child. The financial situation has improved, so Jessen has made preparations for the purchase of a plot of land on which to plant 'rewarding crops'. Health...
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[Personalakte Peter Jessen] Jessen (Urambo) to 'Peter' (brother-in-law of Peter Jessen, husband of his sister) in Denmark in English. News that the British and Belgians have completely conquered DOA. On September 19, the Belgians marched...
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[Personalakte Peter Jessen] Jessen (Kigoma) to Bracker with the message that his wife had born a daughter, Katharina Maria. Both are well. Message that Easter 1915 the first African will be baptized. At the end of April Jessens will travel to Bock...
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[Personalakte Peter Jessen] Jessen (Glücksburg, relatives of Peter Jessen) to Bracker with thanks for news from the Africa mission. About war and trust in God.
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Personalakte Peter Jessen] Giese (Bordesholm, father of Wilhelm Giese, a missionary of the Bethel-Mission and friend of the Jessen family) to Bracker with a copy of a letter from his son Wilhelm (Kigoma) dated March 19, 1915. Information that Jess...
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[Personalakte Peter Jessen] Jessen (Kigoma) to Bracker with thanks for the greetings to the wedding. Report on the return to Kigoma and the forthcoming opening of the railway line. The work was finished much earlier than expected. About Bock'...
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[Personnel file Peter Jessen] Jessen (Kigoma) to Bracker. Report on the laborious progress of the sermon work. Also the heathen sermon has little success. Women can't listen to Jessen's proclamation. Report on severe diarrhoea by Mrs Jes...
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Personalakte Peter Jessen] Jessen (Neu-Breklum) to Bracker with the cost estimate for 1913. Explanations to individual items, e.g. travel allowances, sick pay, as well as suggestions concerning the money transfer from Germany to Africa. Descriptio...
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[Personalakte Peter Jessen] Bock (Makamba) to Bracker with a cover letter to an essay for the mission sheet. In this letter, Bock expresses his deep gratitude that the missionaries enjoy the privilege of speaking with Bracker completely openly, wh...
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[Personalakte Peter Jessen] Jessen with a travel report in Danish for the Missionsblatt. The translation was published in the Schleswig-Holsteinisches Missionsblatt, August 1912, pp. 123 to 127. Report about the departure from Urambo and the way t...
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[Personalakte Peter Jessen] Jessen (Urambo-Kilimani) to Bracker(?) with the message that all brothers were very upset by the trip, Bock even lay seriously ill down there. On departure from Tabora many loads had to be left behind. Money worries. Pl...
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[Personalakte Peter Jessen] Jessen (Missionsstation?) [He writes the question mark to indicate that the station does not yet have a name] to Mrs. Bracker with the request that she name the new mission station. Report about the worries about the se...
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Jessen (Makamba) to Bracker about his visit to Bock in Makamba and the imminent completion of the mission house in Makamba, the purchase of a donkey, horse trade, horse prices and horse breeding in general.
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Personalakte Peter Jessen] Jessen with an essay which was also printed in the Schleswig-Holsteinisches Missionsblatt (March 1913, pp. 39 to 44): Jessen reports on the decision where the second Breklum mission station is to be built. Udjidji or Kig...
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[Personalakte Peter Jessen] Jessen (Neu-Breklum) to Mrs. Bracker with thanks for the name 'Neu-Breklum', which she chose for the first Breklum mission station. Jessen expresses the hope that Neu-Breklum will be just as much a blessing fo...
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Bock (Makamba) to Bracker about positive developments in the working morale of the natives. Indication of why the cooperation with the natives did not work at first: Jessen had told the indigenous Waha that he and his friends were from a different...
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Andersen, Bock and Jessen (Tabora) to Bracker(?) about their arrival in Africa and the plans for the safari to the mission area. Financial, money problems, Andersen must contribute from his private assets to the safari. Information for future mone...
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