A statement about the state secret that J.D.C. van Heeckeren van Kell talked about in the First Chamber (see 1910.09) is reprinted in note 2 on pages 218–219. In this statement Kuyper communicates what the queen had told him during an audience in 1904/5 about the threat of a war breaking out between Germany and France and how the cabinet had responded to her concerns. Dated March 13, 1910, the statement was kept in a sealed envelope with the following admonition: “Secret item. May be opened only after my death. Kuyper.”

A letter to the Russian provisional chargé d’affaires in The Hague (dated January 11, 1905) is printed on page 399. In the letter Kuyper requests in the name of the cabinet that two diplomatic messages from the Dutch government be regarded as not received. A cover letter (dated February 17, 1905), which accompanied items Kuyper had requested to see and was now returning to the minister of foreign affairs, Melvil van Lynden, is reprinted on page 431. Van Lynden had requested that the queen grant him an honorable discharge on February 18, 1905; the queen granted this request some weeks later.