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- 10 Apr 1909 (Creación)
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c/o Mrs Röntgen, 77 van Eeghenstraat, Amsterdam. - He and Bessie are having a 'very pleasant time in Holland', mainly staying in Amsterdam so far, but next Thursday going to the family country house at Doorn. Bessie is 'very well', and enjoying her return to Holland after three years. Last Thursday they visited Bessie's half-sister Mrs Versteg in the country at Heerde; this is near the Yssel, the river which, according to Ferrero, the fleet of [Nero Claudius] Drusus must have sailed along to reach the Zuider Zee. Bessie went this morning to visit her cousin Louisa Hubrecht at Leiden, but will return this afternoon.
Has just returned from a visit to the Rijksmuseum with Mrs Röntgen's eldest son Johannes; the arrangement of the pictures there has much changed. The Museum has also bought and now displays several paintings from the Six collection, such as Vermeer's 'Cook'; the Rembrandts remain in the house of the Six family, but cannot now be seen without 'an order from the consul or a friend of the family'. It is a shame for the collection to be broken up, but 'it seems that the tourists sometimes were offensive, and the Sixes, who are really quite nice people, hardly felt as if the house belonged to themselves.
Their friend [Donald] Tovey comes here on Monday night, and will go with them to Doorn on Thursday. Hopes his parents have had as good weather at Welcombe as they have had here, and that his father is 'quite well again'. Hears they are going to have an election at Stratford; fears there will be little chance of 'getting a Liberal in at present'. Here they are awaiting 'the birth of an heir to the house of Orange'; if this happens while Robert and Elizabeth are in Amsterdam, they will 'the cannons announce it in the Vondel Park opposite'. His mother's letter to Bessie arrived today; sure she will reply soon. Is finishing the fifth volume of Fererro's history of Rome: thinks he is 'very good about the most important things, such as the relations of Augustus and Tiberius, and the decadence of the aristocracy, but that in details Ferrero 'often seems to form theories with too much assurance upon insufficient evidence'. Perhaps, however, classical historians are 'almost bound to do that, where the evidence is so scanty'.
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- Trevelyan, Sir George Otto (1838-1928), 2nd Baronet, statesman and historian (Materia)
- Röntgen, Abrahamina (1870-1940), piano teacher (Materia)
- Trevelyan, Elizabeth (1875-1957), musician (Materia)
- Hoeven, Henriette Versteeg des Amorie van der (1864-1933) wife of Jacob Versteeg (Materia)
- Ferrero, Guglielmo (1871-1942) historian, journalist and novelist (Materia)
- Claudius Drusus, Nero (38 BC-9 BC) politician and military commander (Materia)
- Hubrecht, Louise Pauline Sophie (1846-1940) cousin of Elizabeth Trevelyan (Materia)
- Röntgen, Johannes (1898-1969), composer, conductor and pianist (Materia)
- Vermeer, Johannes (1632-1675) painter (Materia)
- Rijn, Rembrandt Harmenszoon van (1606-1669), Dutch painter and printmaker (Materia)
- Six, Jan (1857-1926) art historian and archaeologist, rector of the University of Amsterdam (Materia)
- Tovey, Sir Donald Francis (1875-1940), knight, music scholar and composer (Materia)
- Juliana Louise Emma Marie Wilhelmina (1909-2004) Queen of the Netherlands (Materia)
- Trevelyan, Caroline (c. 1847-1928), wife of Sir George Otto Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet (Materia)