DUTCH EAST INDIA COMPANY (VOC). - Generale missiven van gouverneurs-generaal en raden aan Heren XVII der Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie. Dl. I - XI 1610 -1750. Uitgegeven door W.Ph. Coolhaas, J. van Goor, J.E. Schooneveld-Oosterling.

's Gravenhage, Martinus Nijhoff, Inst. voor Nederlandse Geschiedenis, 1960-1997. 11 volumes. Original green 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). - (3 more volumes were published: XII - XIV). - A primary source.

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