van Gogh's letters - unabridged and annotated
 
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Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(19 August 1882)
... a few souvenirs home after all. But another souvenir is that I caught cold again, with all the consequences you know of, which now forces me to stay home for a few days. In the meantime, I have painted a few studies of the figure - I'm sending...
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(20 August 1882)
... your health makes me think of you often. I am pretty well; my not sparing myself and acting as if I had never been ill works all right. But you realize that I have not entirely recovered. I feel it at times, especially in the evening when I'm tired; but fortunately...
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(3 September 1882)
... then not. I shall work as hard as I can. You ask about my health, but what about yours? I would imagine my remedy would be yours as well: to be out in the open, painting. I am well, I still feel like it even when I'm tired, and that is getting better rather than...
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(25 September 1882)
... am making. Adieu, a handshake in thought. I send you all possible good wishes, and hope that your headache is not chronic or one which returns again and again. With me it is also more a feeling of uncomfortable fatigue than of excessive pain. ...
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(2 or 3 December 1882)
... from his father, who tells me R. is sick. I do not know what ails him - perhaps, perhaps, it is what you and I know also. I infer this from some expressions in his last letter when he told me to continue the experiments in lithography, and said that...
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(c. 11 December 1882)
... - oh, I hate the thought of it! You ask about my health - last summer's trouble is really quite gone,
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Anthon van Rappard
(4 February 1883)
... trying all the harder to help her. It was shortly afterward that I fell ill myself. At that point she was in the hospital at Leyden, and I got a letter from her in the clinic where I was, telling me she was in great trouble. Before that time - during the...
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Anthon van Rappard
(c. 7 February 1883)
... winter. I had some very striking models. At the moment I am not working so very hard, for after working - especially on heads - for some months practically without rest or interruption, I have been feeling a kind of weakness or exhaustion which I find I can't...
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Anthon van Rappard
(c. 8 May 1883)
... and we would both feel embarrassed. Speaking for myself, I'll tell you frankly that sometimes I feel clearly that these two forces of exhaustion and reinforcement in my constitution are there through one and the same cause - the exertion of working. And I have...

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