Letter by a member of one of the most respectable families of the Netherlands, Dirk van Hogendorp (1797-1845), the son of Gijsbert Karel van Hogendorp (1762-1834), one of the famous "Driemanschap" (Triumvirate) that invited Willem Frederick, the eldest son of Stadtholder William V to become Prince of the new independent Netherlands in late 1813; after 1814 as King William I of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
In this letter to the Amsterdam solicitor J. de Vries, Dirk van Hogendorp asks for a favour: to frame and present a petition on behalf of the mother of a certain Pieter Penser to the Amsterdam Court asking to postpone Pieters sentence of 2 months in prison to October or November of 1833. Pieter was a servant on a barge in the inland navigation who had, together with a notorious queer-basher, severely mistreated two men who had approached him - a "beau garçon" - in a suspicious way. The mother who was dependent on the income of her son, couldnt miss the money her son could earn in the summer.
Only slight fraying to the outer edges, with remnants of a black wax seal. Was previously folded as a letter, thus shows some folding lines. The letter is overall in very good condition.