- Note
Physical description: 1 p. 40 cm. With recent one-page transliteration.
Item note: First line: Uwe Edele Moghende hebben haer altijts zoo...
Written as Leyden
Addressed to "Edele Mogende Heeren Staten van de Provincie van Utrecht [Noble and Mighty Lords of the Province of Utrecht]"
Original digital object name: bei-m001
Hough and Hough notes: "Edele Mogende Heeren Uwe Edele Moghende hebben haer altyts soo gunstige verthout aen de West Indische Compe, datt het bynae een inexcusable faute voor my sonde weren..."Signed "J de Laet" with two comments added below signature in two different hands: "g Grotij scripsit [?] litigavit de origin Gentij Americanay: scripsit & iter" (1st note). In 1644 de Laet published Responsio ad dissertationem secundam Hugonis Grotii, de Origine gentium Americanarum (cf. Alden 644/92).Written as Director of the West Indische Compagnie.