A letter to the editor of De Standaard, published in response to a letter that H. Pierson had written to the editor of De Nederlander. In 1895.16 Kuyper had defended the practice of publishing passages in personal correspondence that deal with personal relations. In that defense he had appealed to the precedent of Groen van Prinsterer’s two-volume publication Brieven van J.A. Wormser [Letters of J.A. Wormser sr.] (Amsterdam: Höveker & Zoon, 1874–1876), which contained passages relating to the personal affairs of the Rev. O.G. Heldring (1804–1876).

This letter to the editor (along with Pierson’s letter and the passages from 1895.16 that had given rise to the dispute) was published for a second time in De Standaard 24 (1895), no. 7250, October 24, 1895.