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060 To Theo van Gogh. Paris, Thursday, 9 December 1875.
in note 3:
Johannes van Gogh, a brother of Mr van Gogh.
in translation:
If you should see Uncle Jan, please give him my regards and thank him for his letter.
You must try and become good friends with Uncle Jan; I don’t know him well, but I do know he is ‘...
066 To Theo van Gogh. Paris, on or about Monday, 17 January 1876.
in translation:
...after Jules Dupré, one for you, one for Uncle Jan van Gogh, with my regards, and one for Pa. Also fo...
083 To Theo van Gogh. Ramsgate, Wednesday, 31 May 1876.
in note 6:
Uncle Jan (Johannes) van Gogh.
in translation:
Herewith a few words for Uncle Jan.
092 To Theo van Gogh. Isleworth, Tuesday, 3 October 1876.
in note 15:
... van Gogh and Johannes van Gogh, sons of Uncle Jan van Gogh. Uncle Jan visited Theo regularly during ...
in translation:
... Johan are doing very well indeed. Give my regards, too, to everyone at the Rooses’, fromUncle Jan
095 To Theo van Gogh. Isleworth, between Monday, 23 and on or about Wednesday, 25 October 1876.
in note 35:
Uncle Jan (Johannes) van Gogh.
in translation:
Shake Uncle Jan’s hand for me.
099 To Theo van Gogh. Isleworth, Saturday, 25 November 1876.
in note 5:
Uncle Jan (Johannes) van Gogh.
in translation:
...� I therefore decided to go on foot and good Uncle Jan didn’t want me to go alone, so he came alon...
111 To Theo van Gogh. Dordrecht, Sunday, 15 April 1877.
in note 12:
...o hear from. This morning a kind letter from Uncle Jan, saying that Vincent’s room was being made ...
112 To Theo van Gogh. Dordrecht, Sunday, 22 and Monday, 23 April 1877.
in note 9:
...h was planning to live in Amsterdam with his Uncle Jan, who lived at Grote Kattenburgerstraat 3 on t...
in translation:
Uncle Jan was in Etten and said that my room was already ready. Mr Braat is negotiating with someone,...
113 To Theo van Gogh. Dordrecht, Monday, 30 April 1877.
in translation:
...say after Pa ‘I never despair’ and after Uncle Jan ‘the devil is never so black that one canno...
114 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Saturday, 19 May 1877.
in note 41:
Van Gogh lived in a room in the house of Uncle Jan van Gogh, who lived at Kattenburgerstraat 3, on th...
in translation:
...nto that of Aertsen as well as that of Pa or Uncle Jan or Uncle Cor — Rembrandt, Millet, Bosboom a...
115 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Monday, 21 and Tuesday, 22 May 1877.
in translation:
...ss. Yesterday (Sunday) afternoon I went with Uncle Jan to Baarn, how beautiful it is there, we walke...
Yesterday Uncle gave me some old black gloves and scarves. Thought we’d share them in brotherly fas...
...ind it such a pity that there, as well as in Uncle Jan’s best rooms, there is nothing hanging like...
116 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Monday, 28 May 1877.
in translation:
Today Uncle Jan found some clothes that were Hendrik’s which he’s grown out of, and asked if I co...
Uncle Jan went to Leiden yesterday, so I was alone that day. In the morning I went to the Oosterkerk ...
Uncle Jan sends you many regards, write him a word or two, or else write a sentence in a letter to me...
117 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Wednesday, 30 May 1877.
in translation:
...ting in haste. Gave your letter to Uncle Jan, accept his warm regards and he thanks you fo...
120 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Tuesday, 12 June 1877.
in translation:
...ch other’s hand again as I remember Pa and Uncle Jan doing at that little church in Zundert, once ...
...ourtyard, I had to see the sexton to ask about Uncle’s place in the church and I was in his house,...
122 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Sunday, 15 July 1877.
in translation:
... which the ships are built, where we went with Uncle that afternoon you were here), as well as the n...
123 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Friday, 27 July 1877.
in translation:
...eautiful now, on a day like that. But we must ‘strive on’ through everything, as Uncle Jan says.
...ell into the water near the Kattenburg bridge. Uncle saw it and commandeered the sloop of the Makass...
When Uncle Jan commandeered the sloop and the doctors to go and help on the afternoon that accident h...
...nd a stamp and paper, then write again soon. Uncle Jan sends you his regards, that evening you descr...
125 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Friday, 3 August 1877.
in translation:
...as here a few days ago with 2 of his sons, and Uncle gave us permission to go and see the yard and t...
...hat it is, Pa has much more of it still, and Uncle Jan has it in another form, and it’s in Uncle C...
126 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Sunday, 5 August 1877.
in note 5:
... recently seen many members of the family at Uncle Jan’s and occasionally experienced stressful da...
127 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Saturday, 18 August 1877.
in note 30:
...ust 1877, Hendrik Jacob Eerligh van Gogh (the son of Uncle Jan) married Maria (Marie) Elisabeth Vos.
in translation:
...r a while in that way, ‘striving on’, as Uncle Jan says, then we notice through one thing or ano...
I had quite a time on Thursday morning; Uncle had left town to go to Utrecht, and at 7 o’clock I ha...
... in the room, the bride looked sweet enough. Uncle Jan seemed happy. In Utrecht I saw the cathedral,...
128 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Monday, 27 August 1877.
in translation:
...m enough in the house and you only have to let Uncle know, we must make the most of the time and opp...
Uncle Jan is planning to go to Helvoirt for a week on 1 Sept., I hope to profit by it by sitting down...
129 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Tuesday, 4 September 1877.
in note 2:
Van Gogh was not completely alone: Uncle Jan employed a housekeeper, Elisabeth Maria Rijsinge, as wel...
in translation:
Uncle Jan went to Helvoirt last Saturday, he intends to stay away until 10 September, so it’s quiet...
... from whom I have no secrets. In the life of Uncle Jan, of Uncle Cor, of Uncle Vincent, there is muc...
131 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Tuesday, 18 September 1877.
in translation:
...rge with arrack or something similar. Was with Uncle on the Wassenaar, there was no real danger as t...
Uncle Jan sends you his regards, Hendrik and Marie were here for a day this past week and have now le...
132 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Sunday, 21 October 1877.
in note 14:
... van Erp Taalman Kip, the Dutch Naval Minister and therefore Uncle Jan’s highest-ranking superior.
in translation:
Uncle Jan is going to Leiden tomorrow, from there to Middelburg, and will in all likelihood also go b...
...he Minister of the Navy, Taalman Kip, who paid Uncle a visit and took coffee here. How much characte...
...it’s good to persevere and get on with it. Uncle Jan has also read a lot, and there are very many ...
Regards from Uncle Jan too.
133 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Tuesday, 30 October 1877.
in translation:
...longer allowed to sit up late in the evenings, Uncle has very strictly forbidden it — yet the word...
...ll, I wish you well, write if possible, I gave Uncle the receipt enclosed in your letter. Uncle send...
134 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Monday, 19 November 1877.
in translation:
...om Brussels, that Pa has already gone there. Uncle Jan, who received a telegram containing this news...
...d the strength and vigour we need every day. Uncle Jan, Uncle Cor and the Stricker family send you t...
135 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Saturday, 24 and Sunday, 25 November 1877.
in note 17:
Uncle Jan and Uncle Cor.
in translation:
...te from Brussels and later telegraphed to both Uncles to come. When the letter arrived, Uncle Jan had...
When I saw Uncle Jan standing in Dam Square that evening, his figure reminded me of that of Landseer�...
Uncle Cor told me about a walk he took with Uncle Jan in the Bois de Cambre. You know that gnarled un...
... of De Ruyter, an old aquatint hanging here in Uncle’s room, that’s also really beautiful, I loo...
...e those men must have looked like Pa or like Uncle Jan or Uncle Cor. God, the only One that is True,...
... worry, I think, isn’t preaching today. Went to eat there twice this week when Uncle Jan was away.
136 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Monday, 3 and Tuesday, 4 December 1877.
in translation:
... Maris is beautiful, then this is too. Since Uncle Jan sent a box to Etten, sent to Cor for St Nicho...
...the little dog. Just now, too, the figure of Uncle Jan with his long grey hair, probably going to ma...
Uncle Jan sends you his regards, also Uncle and Aunt Stricker.
137 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Sunday, 9 December 1877.
in translation:
...nd. And in the evening I found a letter from Uncle Jan lying on my table. Was then briefly at Vos an...
...Sunday today, how I’d like to be with you, Uncle Jan has gone to Haarlem so I’m alone this eveni...
139 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Wednesday, 9 and Thursday, 10 January 1878.
in translation:
...ound Uncle Cor’s family playing cards at Uncle Jan’s. When Uncle Cor heard that Uncle Cent was t...
Uncle Jan and Uncle Cor send you their warm regards, Uncle Jan is well again, you know that he wasn�...
140 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Sunday, 10 February 1878.
in note 8:
Uncle Jan van Gogh.
in translation:
...Stricker’s, I go there rather often now that Uncle is out of town and now that it’s lonely again...
Uncle Jan will most likely come back on Tuesday.
141 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Monday, 18 and Tuesday, 19 February 1878.
in translation:
Was with Uncle Jan the whole afternoon and evening of Sunday, 17 Feb. at Uncle Cor’s, where Aunt An...
142 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Sunday, 3 March 1878.
in translation:
... that church too, and I had coffee with him. Uncle Jan went this morning to ’t Nieuwe Diep, but ha...
Uncle Jan sends you his regards.
146 To Theo van Gogh. Etten, Monday, 5 August 1878.
in translation:
Uncle Jan was also here, as you’ve already heard, I believe, but only very briefly.
180 To Theo van Gogh. Etten, Monday, 7 November 1881.
in translation:
But as Uncle Jan rightly says, the devil is never so black that one can’t look him in the face, it�...
236 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, Tuesday, 6 June 1882.
in translation:
...inacy you behaved so ungratefully towards your uncle in Amsterdam, who had your best interests at he...
241 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Saturday, 1 July 1882.
in note 9:
...at Java. From 1883 to 1885 Johan’s father, Uncle Jan, lodged with his sister Truitje and brother-i...
403 To Theo van Gogh. Nieuw-Amsterdam, on or about Monday, 5 November 1883.
in translation:
... religion, I find less of that in Pa than in Uncle Jan, say, although many would obviously say the r...
465 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Thursday, 9 October 1884.
in note 17:
From 1883 to 1885 Uncle Jan van Gogh lived with his sister Geertruida Johanna and brother-in-law Abra...
489 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Saturday, 4 April 1885.
in note 1:
... written shortly after that day – from Uncle Jan van Gogh to Uncle Vincent van Gogh and Aunt Cornel...
490 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Monday, 6 April 1885.
in note 8:
Uncle Jan van Gogh wrote about this to Uncle Vincent and Aunt Cornelie: ‘Vincent told me and Strick...
619 To Theo van Gogh. Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, on or about Sunday, 3 or Monday, 4 June 1888.
in note 1:
Uncle Jan van Gogh had been a naval officer.
in translation:
...ve often thought here from time to time of our uncle the seaman, who has certainly seen the shores o...

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2 essay items found

Correspondents / Preservation of the letters
in correspondents_4:
...he Gladwells, father and son, Uncle Hein and Uncle Jan, his teacher Mendes da Costa, his cousin Kee ...
Biographical & historical context / The immediate family circle
in context_4:
Johannes van Gogh, ‘Uncle Jan’ (1817-1885), joined the navy and rose to the rank of rear admiral....

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2 other items found

Overview of all the letters
in overview:
Jan van Gogh, uncle
Chronology
in 1877:
...endes da Costa (120). Lives with his uncle, Jan van Gogh, director of the naval dockyard, at Grote Ka...

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41 letters, 2 essay items and 2 other items found

41 letters found

2 essay items found

2 other items found

Vincent van Gogh, The Letters