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| Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(22 or 23 August 1883)
... what. I do
not ask, either.
But if she wants to come with me, do let her. Leaving her
would mean driving her back to prostitution - how could this be
done by the same hand that tried to save her?
For my work and as an economy... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(6 or 7 September 1883)
... to Drenthe because of
the money.
Oh, Theo, you will understand how I feel these days, so very
melancholy about the woman and the children - but it could not
be helped; at the same time, all my thoughts are concentrated
on the work, and I feel a great... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(11 and 12 September 1883)
... I left, the parting was not very easy.
I have provided her with all kinds of things as well as I
could, but she will have a hard time.
I have taken only a very few colours with me, but
nevertheless some, and I hope to begin the attack soon. The
... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(c. 15 September 1883)
... those ovens, those turf
huts, etc.
I often think with melancholy of the woman and the children,
if only they were provided for; oh, it's the woman's fault, one
might say, and it would be true, but I am afraid her
misfortunes will prove greater than her guilt.... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(c. 17 September 1883)
... if our intentions were not
thwarted.
Personally, I would rather have stayed with the woman,
though it would have been doubly difficult; but as far as I
could see, it was impossible under the circumstances. And if I
constantly imagine her as a phantom, it... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(c. 22 September 1883)
... and life here are
doing me a lot of good. Oh, if only the poor woman could have
enjoyed it too. I think of her with such tender regret - though
my common sense tells me clearly that it is impossible under
the circumstances.
I am worried about her... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(c. 26 September 1883)
... out my work depends on it.
Besides, the fate of the woman and the fate of my poor
little boy and the other child cut my heart to shreds. I would
like to help them still, and I cannot. I am at a point where I
need some credit, some confidence and warmth,... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(19 November 1883)
... Than the source of great rivers.]
Theo, I have heard from the poor woman a few times; she
seems to be doing her best, working, washing for people, going
out as a charwoman. Her writing is almost indecipherable and
incoherent, she seems to regret some... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(c. 25-28 December 1883)
... several ugly symptoms
disappeared.
But now everything has changed for the worse, and I fear for
her life; and the poor little baby too, whom I cared for as if
he were my own, is no longer what he was.
Brother, I found her in great misery, and I am in... |
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