Author: BROMMER, Bea.
Title: To my dear Pieternelletje. Grandfather and granddaughter in VOC time, 1710-1720.
Description: Leiden, Brill, Hes & De Graaf, 2015. 4to. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With 264 illustrations, many in colours. 384 pp.Describing 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.

Keywords: Indonesia VOC Dutch East India Company VOC Indonesia