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| Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(13 June 1873)
Dear Theo, My address is c/o Messrs. Goupil & Co., 17 Southampton Street, Strand, London. You must be eager to hear from me, so I will not keep you waiting any longer for a letter. I hear from home that you are living with Mr. Schmidt now and that Father has been to see you. I certainly hope this will please you better than your former boardinghouse, and I'm sure it will. I am very anxious for a letter; write me soon, and tell me how you spend your day, etc. You must tell me especially what pictures you have seen lately, and also if any new etchings or lithographs have been published. Let me know as much as you can about these things, for I do not see much of them here as it is only a wholesale house. Considering the circumstances, I am doing pretty well. So far the boardinghouse where I am staying pleases me. There are also three German boarders who are very fond of music, they play the piano and sing, so we spend very pleasant evenings together. I am not so busy here as I was in The Hague; I work only from nine in ... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to The van Stockum-Haanebeek family
(2 July 1873)
... Park, where hundreds of ladies and gentlemen ride on ... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to The van Stockum-Haanebeek family
(7 August 1873)
[Letter to the Van Stockum - Haanebeek family] Dear friends, It was a pleasant surprise to me to receive Carolien's letter. Thanks. With all my heart I hope she is quite well again; a good thing it is over now! In your next letter I should like to hear more about that last play you wrote. I was really amazed: for ten characters - it must be the biggest you have done. These last days I have greatly enjoyed reading the poems of John Keats; he is a poet who, I think, is not very well known in Holland. He is the favourite of all the painters here, and so I started reading him. Here is something by him. His best-known piece is “The Eve of St. Agnes,” but it is a bit too long to copy. I have visited neither Crystal Palace nor the Tower yet, nor Tussod 1 ; I am not in a hurry to see everything. For the present I am quite satisfied with the museums, parks, etc.; they interest me more. Last Monday I had a nice day. The first Monday in August is a holiday here. I went with one of the Germans to Dulwich, an hour and a ... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(18 August 1876)
My dear Theo, Yesterday, I went to see Gladwell, who is home for a few days. A terrible blow has struck them, his young sister, so full of life, with dark eyes and hair, had fallen from a horse at Blackheath; they found her unconscious and she died five hours later, without regaining consciousness. She was seventeen years old. As soon as I heard the news, I went to see them, knowing that Gladwell was home. I left at eleven o'clock; and had a long walk to Lewisham. I crossed London from one end to the other and didn't arrive at my destination until almost five o'clock. They had all just come back from the funeral; the whole household was in mourning. I was happy to have come, but confused, truly upset by the spectacle of a pain so great and so venerable. “Blessed are they that mourn, blessed are they that sorrow, but always rejoice, blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God. Blessed are those that find love on their road, who are bound together by God, for to them all things will work together for their ... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(3 October 1876)
... beautiful in the park here, with the avenues of dark elm trees, ... Hyde Park; the leaves were already falling from the trees and ... |
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