Manuscripts, Archives and Letters · Asian Special Collections
The success story of Jacques Aanstoots, electrical engineer in the Dutch East Indies: part 2
The Special Collections of Leiden University hold the diaries of Jacques Aanstoots (1910-1912). They attract the attention of the Dutch readership for the name of the writer alone: ‘aanstoot’ means ‘offence’ in Dutch. Who was he? What did he write? And how did ‘his’ writings function?
