Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh (30 October 1877) ... Scotland and colouring them
(red and green). I thought
of those pickles which Uncle is so
fond of and which I have learned to like too. The soul of man
is singularly strange, and I think it is excellent to have one
- like a map of England,...
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh (1 November 1880) ... with misery, if I
had stayed a month longer. You must not imagine that I live
richly here, for my chief food is dry bread or some potatoes or
chestnuts which people sell here on the street corners, but by
having a somewhat better room and by occasionally...
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh (c. 12-16 January 1882) ... I also spend what is necessary for myself,
though living as
cheaply as possible. (I take my meals in the soup kitchen.) Yet
I hope you will not object to my going on.
But I repeat what I already said in my last letter, let me
know as...
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh (c. 16 May 1882) ... I really need some more
money this month, though I paid for the bread up to the first
of June and laid in some provisions like coffee, etc.
Of course, since you tell me nothing's wrong as I imagined,
I will certainly finish the order for C....
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh (22 June 1882) ... hand we are superior in some other things. She came to visit me
regularly until the last day, and brought me some smoked beef
and sugar or bread, which I have to do without now, and it
makes me feel very faint. But now I am so sorry that I in turn
...
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh (2nd half June 1885) ... has been and always will be so.
One may sleep on straw, eat black bread, well, one will only
be the healthier for it.
I should like to write more, but I repeat, I am not in a
mood for writing, and I wanted to enclose a note for Serret
...
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh (28 December 1885) ... continue until all the money has gone. Meanwhile what will be
keeping me going is my breakfast with the people where I live,
and a cup of coffee and some bread in the crêmerie in the
evening. Supplemented, when I can, by a second cup of...
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh (c. 21 April 1888) ... you have got his study of the Negress.
But indeed, it will
do you good to have breakfast. I do it
here myself, and eat two eggs every morning.
