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The index of thousands of diplomatic letters can be searched by entering one or more search fields. As all letters do have a source location, destination location, and the name of the ruler who wrote the particular letter, searching with one or more of these search fields will generally give good results. To filter still further the number of results, it is possible to set a time frame. Selection can lead to one or more results. Each result can be clicked on, invoking the browse page on the exact position of the letter in the scans of the original volume of the Daily Journals of Batavia Castle.


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March 25, 1677
Original Date: Sep. 5, 1676
Source: Tayouan
Destination: Batavia
Notes: Not a conventional diplomatic letter, but one written by prisoners trapped, so to say, in diplomatic games.
Language: Dutch (translated)
volume 25, page 73-74 
file 2481, folio 109-111 
March 25, 1677
Original Date: Jan. 15, 1677
Source: Tayouan
Destination: Batavia
Language: Dutch (translated)
volume 25, page 75-76 
file 2481, folio 112-114