Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh (c. 16 May 1882) ... I really need some more
money this month, though I paid for the bread up to the first
of June and laid in some provisions like coffee, etc.
Of course, since you tell me nothing's wrong as I imagined,
I will certainly finish the order for C....
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh (22 June 1882) ... hand we are superior in some other things. She came to visit me
regularly until the last day, and brought me some smoked beef
and sugar or bread, which I have to do without now, and it
makes me feel very faint. But now I am so sorry that I in turn
...
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh (2nd half June 1885) ... has been and always will be so.
One may sleep on straw, eat black bread, well, one will only
be the healthier for it.
I should like to write more, but I repeat, I am not in a
mood for writing, and I wanted to enclose a note for Serret
...
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh (28 December 1885) ... continue until all the money has gone. Meanwhile what will be
keeping me going is my breakfast with the people where I live,
and a cup of coffee and some bread in the crêmerie in the
evening. Supplemented, when I can, by a second cup of...
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh (c. 21 April 1888) ... you have got his study of the Negress.
But indeed, it will
do you good to have breakfast. I do it
here myself, and eat two eggs every morning.
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh (1 May 1888) ... the better. I want to make sure of that.
You know, if I could only get really strong soup,
it would do me good immediately: it's preposterous, but I never can get what I ask for, even the
simplest things, from these people here. And it's the same everywhere...
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh (c. 15 May 1888) ... then I have been feeling
much better. It was mainly their bad food which kept me down,
and their wine, which was regular poison. I get a very good
meal now for 1 franc or for 1.50.
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh (c. 20 May 1888) ... circulation
good and my stomach digesting. I have found a place
where the food is very, very good, and the result is immediately apparent.
Did you notice Gruby's face when he shuts his mouth tight
and says - “No women!”? It would...
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh (c. 4 June 1888) ... Holland without the dunes, and bluer.
You get better fried fish here than on the Seine. Only fish
is not available every day, as the fishermen go off and sell it
in Marseilles. But when there is some, it's frightfully
good.
If there isn't...