Valck corresponded regularly with his daughter across a colonial empire

Evidence

Let us turn back to 1872, to the letter written to his young daughter, Suze, on his way from Europe to take up his post in Bali. It conveys the promise of a different future, penned before the transfer to Sumatra that so abruptly ended his career. It was one of many he wrote regularly and without fail to this, his only offspring, then nine years old. He writes to her en route to the Indies, while she is to spend most of her youth in boarding schools and with her grandparents in the Dutch countryside and in The Hague. — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 1436