Format:
1 Online-Ressource (384 pages)
,
illustrations (chiefly color)
ISBN:
9789004293328
Content:
Preliminary Material -- The verenigde oost-indische compagnie (voc), the dutch united east india company -- My Long_Standing Request for my Release -- Sing the Watch Song -- Fleas and Hottentots -- Your Very dear and Beloved Father -- What a Wonderful Country -- To Invest our Pennies Securely -- Tied with a Chinese Silken bow -- Raised in my small Country Garden -- Some Pins, Needles and thread -- Becoming Quite an Amsterdam -- Those Gentlemen! -- Not Without Ailments -- Dear and Beloved Grandpapa -- The van Outhoorn Family -- The Van Hoorn Family -- The Van Riebeeck Family -- Njeij Bantam and Thebitia -- Portraits -- Appendices -- Glossary -- Sources -- Index Persons.
Content:
To my dear Pieternelletje describes a ten-year period in the lives of Pieternella van Hoorn and her grandfather Willem van Outhoorn, former governor-general of the Dutch East Indies. Eleven years old, Pieternella left for Amsterdam and the only contact possible was by mail. Numerous letters have survived and combined with contemporaneous documents, most of them never published before, they offer a vivid and clear picture of their private life and feelings, forming a most welcome addition to official VOC-history. Van Outhoorn not only acted as Pieternella’s mentor while she tried to adjust to her new but unknown fatherland, but also sent her numerous exquisite presents, the greater part of which has been traced and described in full, thus offering new insight in the cultural history of Asia
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 366-371) and index
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Includes some documents in Dutch with facing English translation
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004289666
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Brommer, Bea To my dear Pieternelletje Leiden : Brill | Hes & De Graaf, 2015 ISBN 9789004289666
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Niederlande
;
Indonesien
;
Schriftverkehr
;
Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie
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