A bound tear-off calendar for 1903. Underneath the times of sunrise and sunset, the position of the moon, the day, and the date, the pages of the calendar give mottos—spiritual epigrams as it were—from Kuyper’s works. At the time this item was hailed as a novelty among tear-off calendars. As the publisher announced in an advertisement, the mottos had been selected under the supervision of Henriette S.S. Kuyper (cf. 1897.21). Kuyper’s eldest daughter, who was gifted both as an editor and as a manager, supported her father greatly by assisting with his work and housekeeping.

The calendar block was available in unbound and bound issues. The unbound calendar block came in an unusual casing that did not, as was customary, depict a scene, but featured—“in new-fashioned style,” as one critic wrote—harmoniously arranged arabesques in gold, bronze, and green against a soft green background.