‘Memorandum to the noble governors about the condition of the Dutch Indies’
Jan Pieterszoon Coen
Date: 1 January 1614
Original Language: Dutch
Description
Jan Pieterszoon Coen wrote many letters and reports for the VOC central office in Amsterdam, and the substantial memorandum of 1 January 1614 was known as his vision statement for the VOC. It occupies 24 pages in his biography (Colenbrander, Jan Pietersz. Coen . Levensbeschrijving, pp. 451-74; all the references that follow are to this e…