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| Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(6 July 1875)
... it. It's small, but it looks out over a little garden full of ... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(11 October 1875)
... Christ in the Garden of Olives, and Malaria ... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(19 February 1876)
Dear Theo, Thanks for your last letter and also for the catalogue sent in the last box. Have I thanked you already for Andersen's tales? If not I do so now. From home I have heard that this spring you will have to travel on business, you will not be sorry for that, I suppose; it is a good experience and you will see many beautiful things in your travels. In the next box you will find the Longfellow. Yesterday evening Gladwell was with me, he comes every Friday and we read poetry together. I have not read “Hyperion” yet, but I have heard that it is very beautiful. I have just read a very beautiful book by Eliot, three tales, called “Scenes from Clerical Life”; the last story in particular, “Janet's Repentance,” struck me very much. It is the life of a clergyman who lives chiefly among the inhabitants of the dirty streets of a town, his study looks out on the gardens with stumps of cabbage, etc., and on the red roofs and smoking chimneys of poor tenements. For his dinner he usually had ... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to His Parents
(14-17 April 1876)
Dear Father and Mother, You have probably received my telegram, but you will be glad to hear some more particulars. On the train I wrote down a few things, and I am sending them to you, so that you will know all about my journey. Friday. In thought we will stay together today. Which do you think is better … the joy of meeting or the sorrow of parting? We have often parted already; this time there was more sorrow in it than there used to be, but also more courage because of the firmer hope, the stronger desire, for God's blessing. And didn't nature seem to share our feelings, everything looked so grey and dull a few hours ago. Now I am looking across the vast expanse of meadows, and everything is very quiet; the sun is disappearing again behind the grey clouds, but sheds a golden light over the fields. These first hours after our parting - which you are spending in church, and I at the station and on the train - how we are longing for each other and how we think of the others, of Theo and Anna ... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(17 April 1876)
Dear Theo, I arrived here safely yesterday, at about one in the afternoon. The first thing that struck me was that the windows of this not so very big school look out onto the sea. It is a boarding school, and there are twenty-four boys from ten to fourteen years old. Mr. Stokes is on a trip for a few days, and so I haven't seen him yet. They expect him this evening. There is another assistant teacher seventeen years old. Last night and this morning, we all went for a walk along the seashore. Enclosed is a spray of seaweed. On the waterfront, most of the houses are built of yellow brick in the style of those in Nassaulaan in The Hague, but they are higher and have gardens full of cedars and evergreen trees of a somber green. Dikes of stone, upon which you can walk, protect the harbour, where all sorts of ships are tied up. Yesterday everything was grey. By and by I shall go and unpack my trunks, which have just been delivered, and I am going to hang some prints in my room. The holidays are not yet over, so I have not ... |
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