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Dear Theo,
As the whole family is writing to you again, I too enclose a
little note. I certainly hope you are well, and will be able to
find a half-hour to write me again.
Now I will tell you what I have been doing since I wrote you
last.
In the first place, two large drawings (crayon and a little
sepia), pollard willows - somewhat like the sketch below [Drawings lost].
Then another one, vertical, of the road to Leur [Drawing lost]. I also had
a model again a few times, a digger and a basket weaver.
I at once started to make a kind of watercolour, like the
sketch below [Painting lost].
[The second sketch in the above picture was drawn here.]
I am very happy to get models. I am also trying to get a
horse and a donkey.
That thick Ingres paper I mentioned is especially good for
painting in watercolour, and it is much cheaper than any other.
Still, I am not in a hurry for it because I brought a supply
from The Hague, but alas, it's plain white.
Well, you see I am hard at work.
Uncle goes to The Hague tomorrow and will perhaps talk over
with Mauve the question of my going up to see him again.
And now adieu. I have walked very far today and am very
tired, but I would not let the letter go without enclosing a
word.
I hope things are well with you, a handshake in thought,
Yours sincerely, Vincent
At this time, Vincent was 28 year oldSource: Vincent van Gogh. Letter to Theo van Gogh. Written c. 12 October 1881 in Etten. Translated by Mrs. Johanna van Gogh-Bonger, edited by Robert Harrison, number 151. URL: https://www.webexhibits.org/vangogh/letter/10/151.htm.
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