Letters of a Javanese Princess (Dutch: Door duisternis tot licht: Gedachten over en voor het Javaansche volk; 'Through darkness to light: Thoughts about and for the Javanese people') is a posthumous book of letters by the Dutch East Indies women's rights activist and intellectual Kartini.

[1] Unusually for the time, she was schooled in the Dutch language and read, wrote and corresponded extensively as a youth living in aristocratic seclusion.

[9] A fourth Dutch edition in 1924 had an expanded text by Abendanon in which he described the advances of girls' education in the Indies since Kartini's death.

[8] Meanwhile the 1922 Malay edition, promoted heavily by the colonial education system, popularized Kartini and her ideas among Indonesians.

[8] At around this time Indonesian writers also took new interest in Kartini, including Pramoedya Ananta Toer and the journalist Soeroto.

[11] It was only in the late 1980s, after Abendanon's descendants donated Kartini's archive to the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies, that many of the original letters became available to scholars and started to be published and re-translated.