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London, 2 July 1873
... London. In front of every house there is a small garden with flowers or a few trees, and many houses are built very tastefully in a sort of Gothic style. Still, I have a good half-hour's walk to get ...
London, 30 April 1874
...ty). Lilac, hawthorns and laburnums flower in all gardens; the chestnut trees are splendid. He that sincerely loves nature, finds pleasure everywhere. Nevertheless I miss Holland, especially Helvoirt....
Paris, 31 May 1875
...rot exhibition. In it was the picture, “The Garden of Olives”; I am glad he painted that. To the right, a group of olive trees, dark against the glimmering blue sky; in the background, hil...
Paris, 6 July 1875
...ke it. It's small, but it looks out over a little garden full of ivy and Virginia creeper. I'll tell you what prints I have on the wall: Ruysdael Le buisson [The Bush] “ D'Blanchisseries [The Bl...
Paris, 19 February 1876
...rty streets of a town, his study looks out on the gardens with stumps of cabbage, etc., and on the red roofs and smoking chimneys of poor tenements. For his dinner he usually had nothing but underdone...
Ramsgate, 17 April 1876
...aulaan in The Hague, but they are higher and have gardens full of cedars and evergreen trees of a somber green. Dikes of stone, upon which you can walk, protect the harbour, where all sorts of ships a...
Ramsgate, 21 April 1876
...ys make a sandcastle, like we used to make in the garden at Zundert. I wish you could catch a look out of the windows of the school. The residence looks out on a square (all the houses in this square ...
Ramsgate, 31 May 1876
... was already singing. And the nightingales in the gardens by the sea. In the distance, the light from the lighthouse, the guard ship, etc. That same night I looked out of the window of my room at the ...
Isleworth, 8 July 1876
...ning while I was busy weeding the potatoes in the garden. Many thanks; both the engravings, “Christus Consolator” and “Remunerator,” are hanging over the desk in my little room...
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