Letters from Theo van Gogh to his Family (1885 - 1887) ... other people even more than it does me. He has undergone an
important operation in his mouth, for he had lost almost all
his teeth
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh (1 May 1888) ... is mostly in moments of physical weakness,
and last week I had such a fierce toothache
that much against my will I had to waste time.
However, I have just sent you a roll of small pen-and-ink drawings, a dozen I think. By which
you will see that if I have stopped painting, I haven't stopped working. You will find among
them a hasty sketch on yellow paper, a lawn in the square as you come into the town,
with a building at the back , rather like this:-
Well, today I've taken the right wing of this complex, which contains 4 rooms, or rather two
with two closets. It is painted yellow outside, whitewashed inside, in full sunlight. I have
taken it for 15 Fr. a month.
Now my idea would be to furnish one room, the one on the first floor, so as to be able to
sleep there. This [house] will remain the studio and the storehouse for the whole campaign, as
long as it lasts in the South, and now I am free of all the innkeepers' tricks: they're ruinous
and they make me wretched....
