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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... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh (22 March 1877) ... Dear Theo,
I want you to have
a letter from me on your journey. What a
pleasant day we had together in Amsterdam; I stayed and watched
your train until it was out of sight. We are such old friends
already - how often haven't we walked the black fields... |
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh (late March 1877) ... and you will have a
fine one in time. Please
accept my small contribution to it, I
am so anxious to keep in touch with you through these little
things - whenever I enter my little room the prints on the
walls remind me of you. It is an old truth that the... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh (22 April 1877) ... Your loving brother, Vincent
It is raining here today,
and one could almost fancy oneself
in London. When I go to post this letter, I hope to walk down
the little path behind the station where we walked
together.
... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh (30 April 1877) ... always until the end of the world.
After church I walked
along the path behind the station
where we walked together; my thoughts were full of you, and I
wished we might be together. I walked on to the churchyard at
the end of a black cinder... |