Colonial administrators’ letters functioned as public self-presentation, not private correspondence

Evidence

Frans Carl’s letters were addressed to Suze, but were as much for himself and, when she was still a small girl, for those relatives that would share and read them aloud to her, and later, when she was grown, that she would pass on to them. — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 1466

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s work on performative colonial writing and how the archive self-documents. — connects to: Missionary letters functioned as public propaganda, not private correspondence — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 490