In this brief letter to the editor, Kuyper writes to Charles Boissevain that the vacation of a hardworking man should be respected and that he will thus gladly suspend his public correspondence (see 1897.11) until after his vacation. Kuyper goes on to note, however, that Boissevain has rejected his pertinent request. In a brief editorial commentary the Algemeen Handelsblad noted, in reference to this last remark, that Boissevain had refused to sign a record that Kuyper had composed and presented to him as a kind of charge. Neither this letter to the editor nor the editorial commentary was reprinted in 1898.01.