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11. Collection Aanwinsten of the
National Archives of the Netherlands
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the first place, the collection Aanwinsten
(Acquisitions) in the former First Section of the National
Archives of the Netherlands contains all sorts of miscellaneous
documents which somebody at some time has thought interesting
and have therefore been preserved. Besides these, there are
both semi-private papers of people referring to the voc
as well as miscellaneous documents which formally speaking
should belong in the voc
archives or in those of an establishment, but were kept aside
by a director or an employee. Naturally these are often interesting
and important documents. Furthermore, the collection contains
a number of largish fragments of archives of voc
employees, of the same type as the fragments of archives of
functionaries which one comes across in private archives.
Meanwhile, some documents have been taken out of the collection
and inventories have been made of them as separate archives.
Examples of this are the collections of the Governors of Ceylon
Hendrik Becker and Lubbert Jan van Eck(32).
The following collections are
still to be found in the collection Aanwinsten,
sometimes fairly scattered throughout the collection:
- Documents of J.W. Falck (master
of the equipage in Surat);
- Documents of C. Chastelain (Governor
of the Cape of Good Hope);
- Documents of Hendrik Breton (Director-General
in Batavia);
- Documents of I.A. Rumpf (Governor
of Ceylon);
- Documents of A.E. van Braam Houckgeest
(ambassador to China);
- Documents of J.G. Loten (Governor
of Ceylon). In the nineteenth century the extensive Van
Loten archives fell into the hands of autograph collectors
and, consequently have been scattered among various archive
holdings. Besides the part in the collection Aanwinsten,
there are parts to be found in the Grothe van Schellach
Collection in the Utrecht Municipal Archives and in the
library of the Faculty of Theology of the University of
Tilburg.
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