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| Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(c. 12-16 January 1886)
... sending
me at least another 50 fr.
At present I am losing weight, and moreover my clothes are
getting too shabby, etc. You know yourself that it isn't right
as it is. Yet I feel sort of confident that we shall pull
through.
But... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(c. 3 February 1886)
... that I am literally worn out and overworked. Just think, I went
to live in my own studio (in Nuenen) on May 1 and I have not
had a hot dinner more than perhaps six or seven times since. I
do not want you to tell Mother that I am not well, for... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(1st half February 1886)
... it
wouldn't be any different.
Now, at this moment, I am feeling terribly weak, even worse
than that, from reaction after overwork, but that is the
natural course of things and nothing extraordinary; but as it
is a question of taking better nourishment,... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(15-17 February 1886)
... like, and go
on working here till I leave? I tell you, I am in such a
wretched condition that, if there is any money to spare, let me
look after my health then, and let the rest go, for at home
they can manage just as well with a hired man, even better
... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(19 or 20 February 1886)
... to profit from
working at Cormon's.
Then my health, I do not eat when I'm working outdoors, and
I cannot get well. For I frequently relapse; my health is far
from being what it ought to be.
Now as to the expenses, I believe it will... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(1 May 1888)
... as bad here, but I drink very little of it.
And so it comes about that by eating hardly any solid
food and hardly drinking I am pretty weak, but my blood is getting healthier instead of
getting poisoned. Once again, it's patience I need to see... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(c. 13 July 1888)
... of this constant mistral, not to mention that I have
spent whole days outside with a little bread and milk, since it
was too far to go back to the town every once in a while.
I have already said more than once how much the Camargue and
the... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(8 October 1888)
... - not sent)
My dear Theo,
Thanks for your letter, but I have had a very
thin time of it these days, as my money ran out on Thursday, so it was a
damnably long time till Monday noon. These four days I have
lived mainly on 23 cups of coffee,... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(24 October 1888)
... to prepare the
canvas ourselves. For a while I had a
feeling that I was going to be ill, but Gauguin's arrival has so taken my mind off it
that I'm sure it will pass. I must not neglect my food for a
time, and that is all, absolutely all there... |
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