Transcriptie van (een deel van) een brief aan Friedrich Gustav Julius Süs after 1904

Pieter Haverkorn van Rijsewijk wrote this intriguing note in 1904, and I'm immediately drawn into his world. Look at the looping script, almost like a drawing in itself. I imagine him hunched over his desk, pen in hand, the words flowing from his mind onto the page. He seems to be in a bit of a state, doesn't he? Complaining about newspapers wanting to puff him up—or swallow him, even! Then he refers to being no "Spiegelkyper," and remembering tearing one of Louis Meyer's pupils, a Belgian, who turned on him saying that he was even lieleken biest. It's all a bit cryptic, but I get a sense of his personality, a kind of restless, intellectual energy. I almost feel like I’m overhearing a private conversation. It reminds me how artists are always talking to each other, across time and space. And in a way, this note is a form of art. Just like a painting, it invites us to slow down, to linger, and to imagine.