Abstract
Anglo-Dutch relationships run like a thread through the lives of three generations of the Dutch Huygens family. From an early point in his life, Constantijn was already well acquainted with diplomats, high officials and court functionaries, as his father Christiaan Huygens had introduced him into his personal and official network as secretary of the Raad van State. In the early twentieth century, a six-volume edition of Constantijn’s correspondence was published by J.A. Worp. While Worp’s work was exemplary, his editorial principles and practices fail to meet today’s scholarly standards. The fifteen detailed letters Constantijn sent to his parents and the autobiography that he wrote about his life, sixty years later, are the main sources for insights into how it was for a 21-year-old upper-class Dutch youth to visit England. After 1624, it would be more than forty years before Constantijn was to set foot on English soil again.
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