Land (Jan Pieter Nicolaas) Seventeen Autograph letters signed, all addressed to Reginald Lane Poole (British historian), majority sent from Leiden, others from Brussels and Arnhem, including lists of recommended academic texts, passages include: ‘[...] when I shall have leisure to divide between transcribing Jacob of Edessa’s (+710) Syriac Hexaemeron and taking long walks. I saw in the Paris Illustration an account of a Capital American invention, the podomotor, which enables a pedestrian to keep up with any carriage [...]’; ‘[...] You are aware, I think, of the deaths of our Princes [...] So we have nobody to fall back upon except the old Prince Frederick, a contemporary of the Emperor Wilhelm, Alexander Prince of Orange, a bachelor in delicate health, and the possible issue of the new Queen’, 8vo, 1879-96 (17)