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RM22 Paul Gachet to Vincent van Gogh. Auvers-sur-Oise, Monday, probably June-July 1890.

metadata
No. RM22 (Brieven 1990 -, Complete Letters -)
From: Paul Gachet sr.
To: Vincent van Gogh
Date: Auvers-sur-Oise, probably June-July 1890

Source status
Original manuscript

Location
Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, inv. no. b3264 V/1966

Date
It is impossible to assign this scribbled note a precise date. Its amicable tone suggests that Gachet wrote it when Van Gogh had been in Auvers for a while, i.e. some time in June or July 1890, on a Monday.

original text
 1r:1
Lundi
Le Bonjour à Maître Vangogh de son dévoué dr Gachet

translation
 1r:1
Monday
Regards to Maître Van Gogh
from his devoted
Dr Gachet