van Gogh's letters - unabridged and annotated
 
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Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(2 July 1889)
... your parents assures long life. Thank you very much for the package of colours. Subtract them from the order sent since, but if you could manage it, not for the quantity of white. Thank you also very heartily for the Shakespeare. It will help...
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(6 July 1889)
... apart and has always cost me a lot. Thank you very much for the package of colours and canvas, which I am very glad to have. I hope to go and do the olives again. Unfortunately there are very few vineyards here.
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(c. 9 July 1889)
... he suffers a good deal from his gout. I have received the second package of canvases and paints and I thank you very much for them. The last canvas I have done is a view of mountains with a dark hut at the bottom among some olive trees. ...
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(5 or 6 September 1889)
... much like to see what they are doing. I must ask for the following things for painting. 10 meters of canvas Large tubes 6 tubes zinc white 2 tubes emerald green 2 tubes cobalt Small tubes 2 carmine 1 vermilion...
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(7 or 8 September 1889)
... that are not exactly easy or simple. Please send me the canvas soon, if at all possible, and I think I'm also going to need 10 more tubes of zinc white. All the same, I'm sure that if one is brave then recovery comes from within, through...
Letter from Theo van Gogh to Vincent van Gogh
(18 September 1889)
... It is also necessary for you to eat meat. You will probably have received the paints from Tasset's; as for the second consignment of white, it will reach you within a very short time, for he didn't have any of it in stock. There are three pictures by Meunier...
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(28 September 1889)
... said that you looked well, which pleased me. I have received ten tubes of white, but I need another dozen of zinc white as soon as possible. 2 large tubes cobalt...
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(5 October 1889)
... also Jo and the friends you speak of. I have to ask you to send the white that I had ordered as soon as possible, and to add five or ten meters of canvas, at your discretion. Now I must begin with some rather irritating news, as I see it. It...
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(c. 8 October 1889)
... the mine, and paint the light effects. If you have not yet sent off the canvas and the paints, I must tell you that at present I have absolutely no canvas. And I was going to ask you, in case you find it difficult to send the total of what I owe M. Peyron at...

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