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Archives created in Asia and South Africa
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10. Private Papers
rivate
papers often include great quantities of official documents
or collections of professional documents(18).
Archives of officials like the Brugman Collection contain
the ex officio correspondence
and other documents relating to the work of the person who
formed the archives, whereas the collections of documents
originate from documentation collected as background material
by VOC officials.
The documents of VOC
employees in Asia, which are found in family archives,
are usually typical batches of official documents. In contrast,
the archives of the directors which were formed in the Netherlands,
such as that of the Radermacher family, are typical collections
of documentation to which the directors could refer for decisions
affecting their policy. The smaller collections of documents
often contain both a few official documents such as letters
of appointment as well as other personal documents, which
have been preserved more for their curiosity value or as memorabilia.
One interesting aspect of archives
of officials in private archives collections is that they
often present a picture that is only incompletely reflected
in the archives of the VOC
and its establishments. Some archives of employees show that,
in reality, there was a much greater and more varied correspondence
carried on than appears from the documents in the official
VOC archives. Typical examples
of these are the archives of Wollebrand Geleynssen de Jongh
about Persia and Surat and of Vernet about Bengal.
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PRIVATE PAPERS KEPT IN THE GENERAL
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The most important archives of functionaries
are:
- Alting, W.A. (1724-1800), 1596-1796
(Governor-General) and Engelhard, N. (1761-1831), seventeenth
century-1831 (various functions in Java) (partly in the
former Tweede Afdeling in
the family papers Van Alphen and Engelhard)(19);
- Brugmans, P.A. and A., 1612-1870
(advocate of the Amsterdam Chamber; master of the equipage
in Batavia)(20);
- Cnoll, Govert (1644-1710),
1678-1709 (various functions in Java)(21);
- Geleynssen de Jongh, Wollebrand
(1594-1674), 1612-1648 (director in Surat and Persia)(22);
- Kal, Jacob van (1754-1829), 1781-1811
(various functions in Melaka, Riau and Batavia(23);
- Nederburgh, S.C. (1762-1811) (advocate
and commissaris-generaal)
and family, eighteenth-twentieth century(24);
- Sweers, Salomon; Jeremias
van Vliet; Jacques Specx; and François Mannis, seventeenth
century (many functions)(25);
- Vernet, G.L., 1746-1766 (director
in Bengal)(26);
- Wttewaal, Jan, and Hendrik van
Staveren, 1754-1888 (VOC employees in Celebes and Sumatra)(27).
Memorabilia of
families:
- Goens, family Van, seventeenth
to nineteenth century (Governor-General, Governors of Ceylon
et al.)(28);
- Hoorn and Van Riebeeck, families
Van, seventeenth-eighteenth century (Governors-General)(29);
- Polanen, Rogier Gerard van (1757-1833)
(clerk to the Raad van Jusititie)(30).
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Archives of functionaries:
- Gijsels, Artus,
(various functions in the Indonesian Archipelago) in the
Badische Landesbibliothek in Karlsruhe(31);
- Hoorn, J. van (Governor-General),
in the Leiden University Library.
Family
memorabilia:
- Pieter Nuyts (Governor of Taiwan),
in the Huydecoper family archives in the State Archives
of Utrecht.
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