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A revised and updated version of
Abraham Kuyper: An Annotated Bibliography 1857-2010 by Tjitze Kuipers (2011)

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1901

1901.11
[Cable.]
In: De Standaard 30 (1901), no. 9022, August 19, 1901.
ET: Without my knowledge and definitely against my will.

Buiten mijn weten en stellig tegen mijn wil. Kuyper.

Telegram sent to Sliedrecht, the district that had once more (cf. 1895.01 and 1897.13) elected Kuyper to the Second Chamber of the States General. B.H. Heldt (1841–1914), Liberal Democrat, founder of the General Dutch Laborers’ Union (1871), and member of the Second Chamber (1885–1901), had started a slanderous rumor during a political speech delivered in Sliedrecht: Kuyper had supposedly had civil servants work on Sunday so that he could go on holiday directly after the formation of the new government. The chairman of the central electoral association in the district of Sliedrecht had seen this coming and had already asked Kuyper about the allegation in a telegram. In that meeting, he confronted Heldt with this cable from Kuyper.

The telegram was sent from the health resort Bad Gastein, where Kuyper was spending his holidays.