van Gogh's letters - unabridged and annotated
 
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Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(29 September 1875)
... unpleasant remarks many a time. How I should like it if we could have breakfast together or drink a cup of chocolate in my room. Keep courage, old fellow. Don't take things that don't really concern you very closely too much...
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(4 December 1875)
... like to celebrate it once more. I am looking forward to Christmas, aren't you? We shall have a great many things to talk about. It is a pity that Anna cannot come too; I hope she also will have pleasant days. Christmas in England is very interesting,...
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(28 April 1876)
... mutual love increase with the years. I am so glad that we have so many things in common, not only memories of childhood but also that you are working in the same business in which I was till now and know so many people and places which I know also,...
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(1 September 1876)
... by Scheffer for her birthday. I am happily looking forward to Christmas; two years ago we took a walk in the snow in the evening, do you remember? And saw the moon rise over the Marienhof? I also quite clearly remember the night, that same Christmastide,...
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(3 October 1876)
... Poor Aunt Bet, we are such old friends. O Zundert! Memories of you are sometimes almost overpowering. Adieu, boy, may God unite us more and more and make us true brothers. Compliments to Uncle Jan and to all the Roos family, from Your loving...
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(31 December 1876)
... be a happy and prosperous in all respects. How delightful it was to meet again, how beautiful that morning you left was, and how often we shall recall that journey to Chaam. Father preached a beautiful sermon this morning! And now it is New...
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(7-8 February 1877)
... to make a covenant with the Lord God!” For the memory of old times came back to me, among other things how we used to walk with Father to Rijsbergen, etc., during the last days of February and heard the lark above the black fields with young green...
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(26 February 1877)
... Dear Theo, The hours that we spent together slipped by too quickly. I think of the little path behind the station where we watched the sunset behind the fields and the evening sky reflected in the ditches, where those old trunks covered in moss stand...
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(28 February 1877)
... let the moonlight filter through. I thought of you on this walk. Getting back home, I wrote you what you will find in this envelope. You have De Genestet's poems, haven't you? Read them as often as you can. Once when I was in Paris, Father...

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