van Gogh's letters - unabridged and annotated
 
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Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(3 October 1876)
... Poor Aunt Bet, we are such old friends. O Zundert! Memories of you are sometimes almost overpowering. Adieu, boy, may God unite us more and more and make us true brothers. Compliments to Uncle Jan and to all the Roos family, from Your loving...
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(31 December 1876)
... be a happy and prosperous in all respects. How delightful it was to meet again, how beautiful that morning you left was, and how often we shall recall that journey to Chaam. Father preached a beautiful sermon this morning! And now it is New...
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(7-8 February 1877)
... to make a covenant with the Lord God!” For the memory of old times came back to me, among other things how we used to walk with Father to Rijsbergen, etc., during the last days of February and heard the lark above the black fields with young green...
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(26 February 1877)
... Dear Theo, The hours that we spent together slipped by too quickly. I think of the little path behind the station where we watched the sunset behind the fields and the evening sky reflected in the ditches, where those old trunks covered in moss stand...
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(28 February 1877)
... let the moonlight filter through. I thought of you on this walk. Getting back home, I wrote you what you will find in this envelope. You have De Genestet's poems, haven't you? Read them as often as you can. Once when I was in Paris, Father...
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(22 March 1877)
... Dear Theo, I want you to have a letter from me on your journey. What a pleasant day we had together in Amsterdam; I stayed and watched your train until it was out of sight. We are such old friends already - how often haven't we walked the black fields...
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(late March 1877)
... and you will have a fine one in time. Please accept my small contribution to it, I am so anxious to keep in touch with you through these little things - whenever I enter my little room the prints on the walls remind me of you. It is an old truth that the...
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(22 April 1877)
... Your loving brother, Vincent It is raining here today, and one could almost fancy oneself in London. When I go to post this letter, I hope to walk down the little path behind the station where we walked together. ...
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(30 April 1877)
... always until the end of the world. After church I walked along the path behind the station where we walked together; my thoughts were full of you, and I wished we might be together. I walked on to the churchyard at the end of a black cinder...

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