Author: DUTCH EAST INDIA COMPANY (VOC).
Title: Generale missiven van gouverneurs-generaal en raden aan Heren XVII der Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie. Dl. I - IX 1610 - 1737; XI 1743 -1750. Uitgegeven door W.Ph. Coolhaas, J. van Goor, J.E. Schooneveld-Oosterling.
Description: 's Gravenhage, Martinus Nijhoff, Inst. voor Nederlandse Geschiedenis, 1960-1997. 10 volumes. Cloth. R.G.P. - Exhaustive reports which the 'Hooge Regeering', i.a. the governor-general and the Council of the Indies, had to submit to their master, the Heren XVII, in Holland once a year (or more often if ships which could letters were returning home). In these Generale Missiven a survey of the whole of the Company's activities in the East is given. A great deal of data on the history of the Asian peoples, some of which is found nowhere else, is also provided (Coolhaas p.29-30). - (Missing vol X; three more volumes were published: XII - XIV). - A primary source.

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