The director of the Dutch Royal Archives assures that the pencil lines are by the Queen, nobody having had access to her books since she died. Knowing about her unhappy marriage it is heart-breaking to see which fragments of novels by George Sand had touched her. This traces are to be complemented by fragments she copied in copy-books (classified as egodocuments) […]

Bibliography:

• Hella S. Haase en prof. S.W. Jackman, Een vreemdelinge in Den Haag. Uit de brieven van Koningin Sophie der Nederlanden aan Lady Mallet. Amsterdam, 1984.