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Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(mid August 1879)
... we
are both still in the land of the living. When I saw you again
and walked with you, I had a feeling I used to have more often
than I do now, namely that life is something good and precious
which one should value, and I felt more cheerful and alive than
... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(30 April 1881)
... Theo,
My best wishes for your birthday. I often think of your
visit; I am glad that we saw each other again, and hope you
will come back this summer. I have been here a few days now and
it is splendid outdoors, but the weather does not as yet permit
... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(3 June 1882)
... (seen from my studio window) .
I have been thinking of you very often lately, and also of
that time long ago when, as you remember, you visited me once
at The Hague, and we walked together along the Rijswijk road
and drank milk at that mill [see Letter 10].... |
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(6 July 1882)
... let us hope it will happen in August.
Before beginning to write about various other things, I want
to tell you that the part of your letter describing Paris by
night touched me very much. Because it brought back to me the
memory of when I too saw “Paris... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(23 July 1882)
... have given some details about
your visit. Do you approve of our arranging to spend the time
you have free from business and visits together, and both
trying to be in the same frame of mind as we were in the days
of the Rijswijk mill?
As for me, brother... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Anthon van Rappard
(c. 20 January 1883)
... when you come here to see them.
While I was looking them over, all my memories of London ten
years ago came back to me - when I saw them for the first time;
they moved me so deeply that I have been thinking about them
ever since, for instance... |
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(c. 18 December 1883)
... poverty and exclusion, and a
painter.
And I see those same brothers in earlier years - when you
had just entered the art world, had just begun to read, etc.,
etc. - near the Rijswijk mill, or, for example, on a winter
outing to Chaam across the snowy... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(early August 1884)
... last letter, and the enclosed 150 francs.
How I should love to walk with you in London, particularly
in real London weather when the City, especially in certain old
parts near the river, has aspects that are very melancholy but
at the same time have a remarkably... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(c. 7 May 1888)
... it's not so bad to work towards that end.
I often used to go for walks with Rappard where you said. Is
the suburb and the country beyond the Congress Column called
Schaerbeek? I remember a place called, I think, the valley of
Jehosaphat, where there were... |
