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"Two additions to the request of of Lambermont regarding the philantrophic purpose", Strauch wrote to Leopold II in a letter of 25 February 1880. The sovereign used a philantropic masquerade to veil the real goal of his African undertaking: trade and profit. Microfilm copy of a received letter from the sovereign to Strauch, 1880.
NAB, Papers Maximilien Strauch, Film 2740. The original document is preseved at the NPO Dynasty and Cultural Heritage.
NAB, Papers Maximilien Strauch, Film 2740. The original document is preseved at the NPO Dynasty and Cultural Heritage.
