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| Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(10 October 1888)
... as well, you must not have too many anxieties. How are those
sciatica pains, have they stopped? In any case, you will help
me more by staying well and living well than by being too
straitened on my account, even if the consignment of paints has
to suffer.
I think the time will come when my work will be in demand,
very good, but it still may be far off, and meanwhile do not
pinch yourself. Because business, as well as painting, will
come of itself and in a dream, as it were, quicker and better
if you are taking care of yourself than if you are stinting.
And at our age, surely, we ought to have a certain calm, a
certain wisdom in managing our affairs. I am afraid now of
poverty, bad health and all that, and hope that you share these
feelings.
So I almost feel remorse at having bought that piece of
furniture today, although it is good, because I have had to ask
you to send me money sooner than I should have otherwise.
Get this quite clear, if you are ill or if you have too... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(16 October 1888)
... light, so as to
finish my canvas.
How are the pains - don't forget to tell me about them.
I know that you will write one of these days.
I will make you sketches of the other rooms too someday.
With a good handshake.
Ever yours, Vincent
[ Sketch “The Bedroom,” was enclosed with letter. ]
... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(2 July 1889)
... from their pips. Beyond that I know
nothing. I have good news from Theo and Jo; yet I am not
surprised that he is coughing, etc. Sometimes I have wished
that they lived outside Paris, and not on a fourth or fifth
floor, etc., and yet I should not want to take the
responsibility of urging him to change, because Theo needs
action, business and friends in Paris itself. Let his wife take
care that he gets back to his old Dutch food as much as
possible, for he has been deprived of this for about ten years,
and has been fed with restaurant food without any family life.
I have every hope that she will understand this, and perhaps
has understood it already.
The main thing is perhaps this: do you remember the story in
that book De Pruuvers 1 , in which there was the tale
of someone who was ill, who used to look every morning at the
maid who was sweeping the floor and think that she had
“something reassuring” about her.
This is the main thing to which, in the most different... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Wilhelmina van Gogh
(2 July 1889)
... -
what does it matter after all?
What you write about Theo's health is something I know quite
well. Nevertheless I hope that this domestic life will fully
restore his health. I think his wife sensible and affectionate
enough to take very good care of him, and to see to it that he
does not eat that restaurant stuff exclusively, but that he
once more comes to know the true Dutch cooking. That Dutch
cooking is very good, so let her more or less change into a
cook and let her assume a reassuring attitude, even if she
should have to be a bit tart about it. Theo himself is obliged
to be a Parisian, but notwithstanding that he is absolutely in
need of being reminded of his youth and his past. I, who have
neither wife nor child, feel the need of seeing the wheat
fields, and it would be difficult for me to stay in a city for
any length of time. Besides, knowing his character, I fully
expect that his marriage will do him an enormous amount of
good. Before one can arrive at an opinion about... | Letter from Johanna van Gogh to Vincent van Gogh
(5 July 1889)
... but this is something of a
selfish pleasure. When I think how neither Theo nor I are in
very good health, I am greatly afraid that we are going to have
a weak child, and to my way of thinking the greatest treasure
that parents can give to their child is a strong constitution.
But in this respect the doctor has reassured me a good deal,
and then taking good food and taking good care of oneself may
do a lot; the baby will have nothing to complain of in this
respect.
Do you remember the portrait of the Roulin baby you sent to
Theo ? Everybody admires it greatly and people have already
asked me many times, “Why have you put this portrait into
such an out-of-the-way corner?” The reason is that from
my place at the table I can just see the big blue eyes and the
pretty little hands and the round cheeks of the baby, and I
like to imagine that ours will be equally strong, and equally
healthy, and equally beautiful - and that his uncle will come
one day to paint his portrait!... |
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