van Gogh's letters - unabridged and annotated
 
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Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(14 May 1882)
... letter this morning suggests. You mention something that happened to you. I think I am able to recall something about it very faintly in the dim and distant past. If I remember rightly, you were acquainted with a girl from a lower class and … were...
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(c. 11 January 1883)
... sincerely, Vincent Theo had met a young woman who was sick and alone in Paris and had come to her aid [Jo's note]. ...
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(c. 13 January 1883)
... activities and surroundings, the better. Certainly, if you could take her into your house at once - I should not mention it. But I am afraid it is impossible, and you yourself could not approve of doing so all at once. Loneliness or idleness is fatal;...
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(c. 21 January 1883)
... one must go. You, too, will experience this. One asks oneself, “Must I help this woman and, for the rest, see her only as a friend, or must I choose this woman for my wife, with whom I want to live forever - is she or isn't she the one?” ...
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(c. 25-29 January 1883)
... never forgets that first expression- I think it probable that your meeting this woman will take your thoughts back to the period some ten or even twenty years ago, and even further back. Anyway, what I mean is that you will rediscover in her, a ...
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(8 February 1883)
... I had better tear up this letter as well. I understand perfectly that you are quite absorbed by the condition of the woman; that is one of the things which are necessary for her rescue, and also for her recovery. For one must throw oneself headlong...
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(11 February 1883)
... becomes good - at least, energetic. Yes, I often think of what you wrote me recently. I think there must be a great difference between the woman you met and the one I have already lived with for a full year, but what they have in common is their misfortune...
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(c. 15 February 1883)
... was very welcome, it helps me a great deal. I begin by telling you that it takes a load off my mind to know that the past of the woman whom you write about is quite different from what I first supposed. Namely that she has known other things beside poverty and...
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(c. 20-24 February 1883)
... but this house hasn't anything like that. I am very eager for your letter and news of your patient. I hope that she is in good spirits and that the recovery is normal and rapid. But sometimes things don't go so smoothly and rapidly, there is almost always some...

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