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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... |
