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Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(9 October 1888)
... My dear Theo, Yesterday I sent you a wire asking you for another 20 francs, I shall have nothing but that for my food all the week, but I have my frames at last and some stretchers. Only don't let the next letter come later than Sunday, for ...
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(13 October 1888)
... He will need time to recover, I tell you. I assure you, I believe that if ideas for my work come swarming over me now, and more clearly too, eating decent cooked food has a lot to do with it, and that is what everyone who paints ought to have....
Letter from Theo van Gogh to Vincent van Gogh
(27 October 1888)
... enough to live on than when you were alone. Why don't you try to get credit with some purveyor of food in case I am not there, as happened a short while ago, or if it is impossible for me to send the money at once? I am very happy that Gauguin is with...
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(c. 6 November 1888)
... certainly find some interesting things. Gauguin and I are going to have our dinner at home today, and we feel as sure and certain that it will turn out well as that it will seem to us better or cheaper. So as not to delay this letter I will finish...
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(c. 12 November 1888)
... He is very interesting as a friend, I must tell you that he knows how to cook perfectly; I think I shall learn from him, it is very convenient. We find it very easy to make frames with plain strips of wood nailed on the stretcher and painted,...
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(26 March 1889)
... good, and all of which are very curious. His courteous doctor, the house physician Rey, is of the opinion that, if he should lead a very methodical life, eating and drinking normally and at regular hours, there would be every chance that the terrible crises...
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(22 May 1889)
... have another room for doing my work. The food is all right as far as it goes. It tastes a bit musty, of course, as in a cockroach-infested restaurant in Paris, or in a boarding-house. The poor wretches here, having absolutely nothing to do (not a book,...
Lettre de Vincent van Gogh à Theo van Gogh
(3 June 1890)
... dîner tous les dimanches ou lundis. Mais jusqu'à présent, si c'est agréable d'y faire un tableau, c'est une corvée pour moi d'y dîner et déjeuner, car l'excellent homme se donne du mal pour faire des dîners où...
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(3 June 1890)
... ask me to dinner every Sunday or Monday. But till now, while it is pleasant to do a painting there, it is rather a burden for me to dine and lunch there, for the good soul takes the trouble to have 4 or 5 course dinners, which is as dreadful for him...

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