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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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1916

1916.04
[Cable.]
In: De Standaard 45 (1916/1917), no. 13523, May 12, 1916.
ET: For your kind political greeting may I be permitted to express my heartfelt gratitude. A rekindling of our former enthusiasm in the province to which I was so deeply attached from my youth forward would be refreshing in my old age. May our collapse of 1913 be redeemed by glowing success in 1916 and 1917.

Voor uwen zoo vriendelijken politieken groet zij het mij vergund u mijn hartelijken dank te betuigen. Een wederopvlamming van onze voormalige geestdrift in de provincie, waaraan ik van mijn jeugd af zoo innig gehecht was, zou mij een verkwikking op mijn ouden dag zijn. Worde onze inzinking van 1913 door een schitterend succes in 1916 en 1917 goedgemaakt. Kuyper.

Kuyper telegraphed this expression of gratitude in reply to a telegram he had received from the Anti-Revolutionary Party rally in Vlissingen, which was organized by the Provincial Committee of Zeeland. In its telegram, the meeting paid tribute to Kuyper for his well-tested leadership. The members stated that the Anti-Revolutionary Party in Zeeland was bravely doing its best for the upcoming Provincial States election (June 1916). The telegram concluded by expressing the hope that Kuyper would live to join them in celebrating a total victory.

In his reply Kuyper alludes to his childhood in Middelburg (1841–1849), to the lost elections of 1913 (see 1913.07), and to the general elections scheduled for June 1917.