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10 letters
relate to Feelings - guilt
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The Hague, 22 or 23 August 1883
"But if she wants to come with me, do let her. Leaving her would mean driving her back to prostitution - how could this be done by the same hand that t..."
The Hague, 6 or 7 September 1883
"Oh, Theo, you will understand how I feel these days, so very melancholy about the woman and the children - but it could not be helped;"
Drenthe, 11 and 12 September 1883
"I have provided her with all kinds of things as well as I could, but she will have a hard time."
Drenthe, c. 15 September 1883
"I often think with melancholy of the woman and the children, if only they were provided for; oh, it's the woman's fault, one might say, and it would b..."
Drenthe, c. 17 September 1883
"Personally, I would rather have stayed with the woman, though it would have been doubly difficult; but as far as I could see, it was impossible under ..."
Drenthe, c. 22 September 1883
"Oh, if only the poor woman could have enjoyed it too. I think of her with such tender regret - though my common sense tells me clearly that it is impo..."
Drenthe, c. 26 September 1883
"Besides, the fate of the woman and the fate of my poor little boy and the other child cut my heart to shreds. I would like to help them still, and I c..."
Drenthe, 19 November 1883
"Theo, I have heard from the poor woman a few times; she seems to be doing her best, working, washing for people, going out as a charwoman. Her writing..."
Nuenen, c. 25-28 December 1883
"But now everything has changed for the worse, and I fear for her life; and the poor little baby too, whom I cared for as if he were my own, is no long..."
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