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Paris, 2 Sept. 1875

My dear Borchers,
Thanks for your letter, which I received this morning and which gave me pleasure. I hope to come to Holland at Christmas and, if I can, immediately to The Hague, and we must then make sure not to miss each other.
I’m glad that you still have a passion for reading, that’s always good, at least such books as you read. I still keep it up, too; an employee in our office1 who has gone on holiday  1v:2 to Holland has just promised to bring me a copy of ‘Motley, Geschiedenis der 17 provinciën’.2
As you know, I’m now in Paris; so I’ve wandered rather a lot since we saw each other on my last day in The Hague,3 and it seems to me that it was a great deal longer than 2 years ago.
Warm regards, give my regards to your Mother and sisters as well,4 and believe me

Ever yours,
V.W. van Gogh

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From: Vincent van Gogh
To: Egbert Borchers
Date: Paris, Thursday, 2 September 1875
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1. It is not known who this employee of Goupil at Paris was, though possibly it is the same person mentioned in letter 69, ll. 23-24.
2. De opkomst van de Nederlandsche Republiek. The Hague 1859, a translation of The rise of the Dutch Republic. A history. London 1856 by John Lothrop Motley.
3. Van Gogh had left The Hague on 10 May 1873 in connection with his transfer to London.
4. Regarding Borchers’s mother and his sister Boukje, see letter 42, n. 10.