78/2429 [Germany]. (Van Spaen family). Collection of 39 letters to, from and on various members of the Von/ Van Spaen family, all pen and ink on paper, all on fold. leaf, recto only, dated between 1653 and 1755.

= Letters to i.a. Jacob van Spaen (died in 1654) and Alexander van/von Spaen (1619-1692). The latter was i.a. page to Frederik Hendrik, prince of Orange and later became a military officer. The oldest letter is a letter of condolence by AMALIA VAN SOLMS ("Amelie d'Orange" (1602-1675)) to Jacob van Spaen on the death of his wife. Also includes 3 letters by Johann Georg II, Fürst von Anhalt-Dessau (1627-1693) to the same; 3 manuscript letters (dated 1737-1743) by Wilhelm VIII von Hessen-Kassel (1688-1760) to Alexander Sweder van Spaen (1703-1768); 2 letters by Charles, Prince of Nassau-Usingen (1712-1775) to the same; 4 letters by Ferdinand von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel (1721-1792) to the same; 3 letters by Ludwig Friedrich von Sachsen-Hildburghausen (1710-1759) to the same; letter by Charles, Prince of Soubise (1715-1787); a letter dated 1763, by an unknown author (signature erased) on Albertine-Elisabeth Pater (warden of Van Spaen), who divorced her husband in 1763 and moved to Paris, where eventually she became a mistress of king Louis XV and a spy; letter of condolence to Elisabeth Agnes Jacoba van Nassau-La Lecq (1724-1798), widow of Alexander Sweder van Spaen, by Charles N.A. Comte d'Oultremont (1716-1771).