"Request for German maps. I would like to take them to Berlin. It is thus urgent", the king wrote in a letter to Strauch. Leopold II used different maps depending on his dialogue partner, in order to obtain what he wanted in a mist of diplomatic cloudiness. Microfilm copy of a letter from the sovereing to Strauch, 1883.
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.