Letters
Dublin Core
Title
Letters
Description
The correspondence displayed here showcases examples of the different types of letter sent and received by six of the Dutch and Frisian stadtholders' wives between the years 1605 and 1726.
Source
Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Den Haag
Koninklijke Verzamelingen, Den Haag
Nationaal Archief, Den Haag
Contributor
Ineke Huysman, Huygens ING
Collection Items
Constantijn Huygens to Amalia von Solms-Braunfels
This letter is an exquisite example of one of the small — in terms of size — letters Constantijn wrote to Amalia. Such minute and discrete letters were written during the military campaigns in which Constantijn reported frequently to Amalia regarding…
Mary Stuart (Princess Royal and Princess of Orange) to Frederik Hendrik van Oranje-Nassau
This letter is Mary's first to Frederik Hendrik and forms part of a group of eleven surviving letters that she wrote to her father-in-law. Frederik Hendrik is reputed to have been very fond of Mary, who at the time of his death in 1647 was still only…
Constantijn Huygens to Mary II Stuart (future Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland)
Only three letters survive from Constantijn Huygens to Mary Stuart, the daughter of James II and herself the future queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland. In January 1687, when this particular letter was written, Mary and her husband Willem were…
Hendrik Casimir van Nassau-Dietz to Sophia Hedwig von Braunschweig-Wolffenbüttel
Of the 151 letters currently in Sophia Hedwig's catalogue, twenty letters were written by her son Hendrik Casimir, who sent frequent reports to his mother about both his wellbeing and the military actions of what became known as the Eighty Years War…
Albertine Agnes van Oranje-Nassau to Johan de Witt
On 31 October 1664 Willem Frederik van Nassau-Dietz, stadtholder of Friesland, Groningen, and Drenthe, and husband of Albertine Agnes, died of the injuries sustained when his own gun went off accidentally and destroyed the lower part of his face.…
Johan Willem Friso van Nassau-Dietz to Henriette Amalia von Anhalt-Dessau
Although no letters from Henriette Amalia to her son have survived, a total of 231 letters from the other side of the correspondence — from Johan Willem Friso to his mother — have been preserved. The majority of these were sent from the battlefields…
Henriette Amalia von Anhalt-Dessau to Van der Dussen
Detail of a letter with an original signature of Henriette Amalia von Anhalt-Dessau.
Albertine Agnes van Oranje-Nassau to Johan Maurits van Nassau-Siegen
Detail of a letter from Albertine Agnes van Oranje-Nassau with an original signature.
Johan de Knuyt to Amalia von Solms-Braunfels
In this letter Johan de Knuyt, close advisor of Stadtholder Frederik Hendrik van Oranje-Nassau, reports to Amalia about her husband's army activities.
Sophia Hedwig von Braunschweig-Wolffenbüttel to Thomas Mancinus
Detail of a letter with an original signature from Sophia Hedwig von Braunschweig-Wolffenbüttel