The Holland Society of New York - Yearbook (New York, NY)

Page 268 text:

212 reached me some fifteen months after being mailed in America, having evidently been detained by our governmental authorities for abstruse reasons of their own. The Year Book for IQOI has not yet come to hand, having probably been confiscated by the military during the period of martial law. As -your publications are highly appreciated, not only by me, but by many of our Dutch friends, to whom I show them from time to time, I would be glad if the missing volume could be remailed to me. Mr. Montagu White Cwhose portrait and able address appear in the book for rgozl was with me when the above mentioned two volumes came to hand and asked to be kindly remembered to you. Thanking you and your Society for the charitable help you have rendered to our suffering compatriots in the former South African republics, I remain Yours Sincerely, J. H. I-IOFMEYR. P. S. I regret that I could not find your full address. I hope that this letter will reach you all the same. I In reply to the foregoing letter, the Year Book for IQOI was immediately sent to Mr. Hofmeyr, with an inquiry concerning Mr. Hertzog, which brought forth the following acknowledgment. o 9 CAMP STREETQCAPE Town, I2 Nov MR. HENRY L. -BOGERT, mos' New York. Dear Sir: f I ,Your favor of 8 Oct. has duly come to hand Eggeilgefegigth the jgear book of 1901, for 'which' I thinks. 61' YOUIT ociety and yourself my cordial I regret to have to say that the Mr. W. F. Hertzog, to. .whom you refer Cand who ,Was an appreciated friend of minej died onthe 3rd Sept. of 13,513 year 13,13

Page 267 text:

2II them to us with a bill for the same We wlsh for the years 1901 I902 and 1903 Yours very truly ARTHUR H CHASE Lzbrarzan The Hon James M Beck having recelved 9, copy of the Year Book for 190 3 at the tlme of hls selection to be one of the speakers at the Anm versary Banquet in January 1904 1-efel-1-ed to the Year Book as follows Dec mb r 4 9 MR HENRY L BOGERT Secretary Holland Society New York M y Dear Szr :F 'F 'lt Thank you for your very he usome Year Book. I thought the New England.Soc1ety of Pennsylvania, of which I was President, had one of the best Year Books, but it does not compare with yours, which is the handsomest I have yet seen of any similar Society. 1 With the Com liments of the season, I am 1 , ' . 9 y W 9 I . , . . ' , . , . . . V I fe e zi, 1 03. I . s 7 . . ,1 , . W1 -.,v.L.1. s.. P 1. ' Yours very truly, IAS. M. BECK. Our friends in South Africa included J. H. Hof- meyr, W. F. Hertzog and others, and therefore parts of the following correspondence may be of interest. 9 CAMP ST., CAPE:T'DWN, 5 September, I903. MR. THEODORE M. BANTA, Secretary Holland Society - of New York, R Brooklyn, N. Y., U. S. A. Dear Sir: 1 ' , I have to cordially thank you for Sending me Your Society's Year Books for I902 and 1903. Thef01'mef

Page 269 text:

213 Hamburg, only two days after his landin th from the Cape. Ig ere I remain, with kindest regards Yours very truly J. I-IOEMEYR. ' At the last annual meeting of the Society a resolution was offered to express our in a reci ' . pp ation of the services rendered by our retiring President, Mr. George G. De Witt. This was engrossed and sent to him, and the following letter acknowledges its receipt. Marchi28th, IQO4. MY DEAR MR. BOGERT. I am in receipt of the beautifully engrossed copy of the resolution adopted by The Holland Society on my retirement as President of the Society. It is indeed a work of art. Please convey to the Society my high appreciation ofthe compliment. r I am, . Very sincerely yours, I GEo. G. DE W1TT. To - ' MR. HENRY L. BOGERT, . Secretary. Through our system of exchanges with other so- cieties and institutions, our Library has profited by the following accessions during the past year. The Clinton Papers, 6th Vol., War of the Revolu- tion Seriesg The M ilitafry M inntes of the C onncil of Appointment, 4, vols., Amsterdam iii' I672,' by Polvlietg various pamphlets from the Huguenot Society of London, a MS. Copy of Marriages in CCol- legiatej Reformed Dutch Church of Fulton Street, 1802 to I85O, Marriage Records of State of New Jersey, 1665 to I8OOQ Register of the French Church at Thorney, 'Englafldi and IUHUY other valuable and interesting items. The St. Nicholas