Title To my dear Pieternelletje : grandfather and granddaughter in VOC time, 1710-1720 / Bea Brommer

Published Leiden, The Netherlands : Brill Hes & De Graaf, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource (384 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color) Contents To my dear Pieternelletje: Grandfather and granddaughter in VOC time, 1710 -- 1720 -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- THE VERENIGDE OOST-INDISCHE COMPAGNIE (VOC), THE DUTCH UNITED EAST INDIA COMPANY -- PART I. PIETERNELLA VAN HOORN AND WILLEM VAN OUTHOORN -- 1. MY LONG-STANDING REQUEST FOR MY RELEASE -- 2. SING THE WATCH SONG -- 3. FLEAS AND HOTTENTOTS -- Slaves -- Khoi or Hottentot -- Asian Exiles -- Europeans -- Excursions -- 4. YOUR VERY DEAR AND BELOVED FATHER -- 5. WHAT A WONDERFUL COUNTRY -- 6. TO INVEST OUR PENNIES SECURELY -- Housing -- Investments -- Pieternella's posessions -- The division of the estate -- Stepparents -- 7. TIED WITH A CHINESE SILKEN BOW -- Presents for Pieternella -- Textiles -- Presents from Japan -- Gold and silver -- Porcelain -- 8. RAISED IN MY SMALL COUNTRY GARDEN -- Country estates around Batavia -- 9. SOME PINS, NEEDLES AND THREAD -- Grandfather's slaves -- 10. BECOMING QUITE AN AMSTERDAM YOUNG LADY -- 11. THOSE GENTLEMEN! -- 12. NOT WITHOUT AILMENTS -- 13. DEAR AND BELOVED GRANDPAPA -- PART II. THE DRAMATIS PERSONAE -- 1. THE VAN OUTHOORN FAMILY -- The hair grown greyer -- Japanese lacquer dishes -- Members of the Van Outhoorn family -- 2. THE VAN HOORN FAMILY -- My dear son Johannes -- The Embassy to the Emperor of China -- Things Chinese -- Members of the Van Hoorn family -- 3. THE VAN RIEBEECK FAMILY -- The cold I cannot stand very well -- Ceylon -- Members of the Van Riebeeck family -- 4. NJEIJ BANTAM & THEBITIA -- Njeij Bantam -- Thebitia -- 5. PORTRAITS -- Portraits in Batavia -- APPENDICES -- 1. LETTERS OFWILLEM VAN OUTHOORN TO PIETERNELLA VAN HOORN -- 2. INVENTORy OF THE ESTATE OF WILLEM VAN OUTHOORN -- 3. INVENTORy OF THE ESTATE OF JOAN VAN HOORN AND JOHANNA VAN RIEBEECK -- AUCTION RESULTS 1714 -- 4. INVENTORy OF THE ESTATE OF ELISABETH VAN OOSTEN -- 5. PIETERNELLA'S PROPERTIES IN 1711 THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF PIETERNELLA -- GLOSSARY -- SOURCES -- Archival documents -- Printed sources, a select bibliography -- INDEX PERSONS Summary This book contains the correspondence between Pieternella van Hoorn in Amsterdam and her grandfather Willem van Outhoorn, former VOC governor-general, in Batavia, during the period 1710-1720. Numerous letters combined with contemporaneous documents offer a vivid and clear picture of VOC-history Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 366-371) and index Notes Includes some documents in Dutch with facing English translation Subject Outhoorn, Willem van, 1635-1729 -- Correspondence Hoorn, Pieternella van, 1698-1764 -- Correspondence Outhoorn, Willem van, 1635-1720 Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie. SUBJECT Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie fast Subject Territorial governors -- Indonesia -- Biography HISTORY -- Asia -- Southeast Asia. Territorial governors SUBJECT Indonesia -- History -- 18th century Netherlands -- History -- 18th century Subject Indonesia Netherlands Genre/Form Biographies History Personal correspondence Biographies. Biographies. Form Electronic book Author Outhoorn, Willem van, 1635-1720, author Hoorn, Pieternella van, 1698-1764, author ISBN 9789004293328 9004293329

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