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63 letters found

003 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, mid-January 1873.
in note 3:
...t us 25 guilders of his savings to help us out. Lies and Willemien needed new clothes and Ma will use...
010 To Willem and Caroline van Stockum-Haanebeek. London, Wednesday, 2 July 1873.
in translation:
Our Elisabeth copied it out for me on my last evening in Helvoirt, because she knew how much I liked ...
in note 10:
...nt probably copied the text from the transcript Lies made for him (which has not survived). This pres...
in note 6:
Elisabeth (Lies) Huberta van Gogh, sister of Van Gogh. She informed Theo that she was copying out a p...
011 To Theo van Gogh. London, Sunday, 20 July 1873.
in translation:
...It’s Brabant to a T, and I’m so fond of it. Lies copied it out for me on my last evening at home....
022 To Theo van Gogh. London, Thursday, 30 April 1874.
in note 3:
...l. 1698. Van Gogh sent the same photograph to his sister Lies for her birthday on 16 May (FR b2708).
027 To Theo van Gogh. London, Friday, 31 July 1874.
in note 13:
...o: ‘Vincent did a fair amount of drawing, for Lies, the bedroom window and a piece of the front doo...
031 To Theo van Gogh. London, Tuesday, 6 April 1875.
in note 7:
Mr van Gogh planned to visit Theo soon. Lies wrote to Theo: ‘How nice it was for you that Pa came t...
RM05 Pages sent to Theo with a story addressed to several writers and sundry quotations. Between May and June 1875.
in note 1:
...e below the fragment in the album from Theo, Elisabeth’s remark about ‘That piece from Vincent�...
... texts included in the album that Theo made for Lies, see Louis van Tilborgh, ‘Notes on a donation:...
033 To Theo van Gogh. London, Saturday, 8 May 1875.
in note 2:
...recovery for Annet Haanebeek. On 26 April 1875, Lies wrote to Theo: ‘This poor Annet Haanebeek you ...
037 To Theo van Gogh. Paris, Tuesday, 6 July 1875.
in note 4:
... Van Gogh family, as emerges from a letter from Lies to Theo: ‘I do know that print you wrote to me...
039 To Theo van Gogh. Paris, Saturday, 24 July 1875.
in translation:
I hear that Anna and Lies are at home; I’d like to see them again. I wish you the very best, and wr...
040 To Theo van Gogh. Paris, Friday, 13 August 1875.
in note 3:
...had gone to visit his father at Helvoirt; Anna, Lies, Willemien and Cor were also there (FR b2350 and...
065 To Theo van Gogh. Paris, Monday, 10 January 1876.
in note 2:
Mr van Gogh also wrote about this matter to Lies, who then told Theo: ‘Pa says that although he is ...
074 Anna van Gogh-Carbentus, Vincent van Gogh and Theodorus van Gogh to Theo van Gogh. Etten, Tuesday, 4 April 1876.
in translation:
...ul that you’ll be seeing each other, and also Lies, who’s coming on Thursday. We’re awfully sor...
I’m so glad that I’ll see you, and Lies too, before my departure.
Good letters from the girls as well – Lies also speaks of you with so much warmth.
076 To Theodorus van Gogh and Anna van Gogh-Carbentus. Ramsgate, Monday, 17 April 1876.
in translation:
...how much we think of the others, of Theo, and of Anna and the other sisters and of little brother.
... you, thank you for everything. Many regards to Lies, Albertine and little brother, and in thought a ...
in note 13:
Albertina Ludovica Brugsma, a friend of Lies, who was staying with the Van Goghs in Etten.
082 To Theo van Gogh. Ramsgate, Friday, 12 May 1876.
in translation:
...dshake, and congratulations on the birthdays of Lies and Cor, and also on 21 May. Regards to everyone...
in note 9:
Lies’s birthday was 16 May; Cor’s birthday was 17 May.
083 To Theo van Gogh. Ramsgate, Wednesday, 31 May 1876.
in note 1:
Cor, Willemien, Lies and Theo were in Etten on 21 May; Anna and Vincent, who were both living in Engl...
087 To Theo van Gogh. Isleworth, Wednesday, 2 August 1876.
in translation:
...you’d be coming home for a day while Anna and Lies were still there; write and tell me if that happ...
089 To Theo van Gogh. Isleworth, Saturday, 26 August 1876.
in translation:
When Lies came home at Christmas we had such a nice reunion. She and Albertien came from Breda in Unc...
in note 11:
...godliness was viewed with dismay by his family. Lies, for example, wrote to Theo on 18 August: ‘I b...
in note 35:
Albertina Brugsma, a school friend of Lies, spent the Christmas holidays with the Van Gogh family in ...
100 To Theo van Gogh. Etten, Sunday, 31 December 1876.
in translation:
...Year. I’m writing in great haste, Anna and the girls and Cor went to Princenhage, and Pa wanted me...
in note 6:
His other sisters, Willemien and Elisabeth.
123 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Friday, 27 July 1877.
in note 5:
...e means necessary’ (FR b2549, 6 August 1877). Lies wrote to her brother optimistically: ‘How wond...
129 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Tuesday, 4 September 1877.
in translation:
Herewith a note for Anna and for Lies, do write something on it and send it when Ma’s birthday is a...
in note 1:
This unknown letter sent by Vincent to Elisabeth was probably what prompted her to write a short whil...
136 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Monday, 3 and Tuesday, 4 December 1877.
in note 38:
...ted by other liturgical texts or hymns), and Elisabeth received H.C. Andersen’s Vertellingen van d...
139 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Wednesday, 9 and Thursday, 10 January 1878.
in note 2:
...hat the visit had gone well (FR b961 and b966); Lies reacted somewhat scornfully: ‘And so the churc...
144 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Monday, 13 May 1878.
in translation:
You’ll have heard that Lies didn’t pass her exam and has fallen ill, and that because she longed ...
in note 2:
Around 8 May, Lies spent two days sitting her exams in English and French, but she was ill and did no...
150 To Theo van Gogh. Wasmes, between Tuesday, 4 and Monday, 31 March 1879.
in note 1:
...ic after that journey in Vincent’s behalf and the worries about Lies’ (FR b2464, 10 March 1879).
185 To Theo van Gogh. Etten, Friday, 18 November 1881.
in note 4:
According to Elisabeth van Gogh, her brother had his studio in an annexe by the parsonage, which had ...
394 To Theo van Gogh. Hoogeveen, Friday, 12 October 1883.
in translation:
...my reasons for it. If I were to say to Ma or to Wil or Lies, pose for me, it would have to happen.
425 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Friday, 18 and Saturday, 19 January 1884.
in translation:
Lies is rather feeble — she felt very faint again yesterday.
426 To Anthon van Rappard. Nuenen, on or about Sunday, 20 January 1884.
in translation:
... I’m just glad I’m here because, since my sisters are also weak, I can find plenty for me to do....
My sisters are otherwise not doing badly. The one who’s usually in Soesterberg is the weakest.
My sisters are otherwise not doing badly. The one who’s usually in Soesterberg is the weakest.
in note 1:
From 1880 onwards Elisabeth, who was staying with her parents to regain her strength, looked after Ca...
428 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Sunday, 3 February 1884.
in translation:
...and sad, and their normal development thwarted. We don’t want to anticipate things, though.sisters
429 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Wednesday, 13 February 1884.
in translation:
Lies has left again, it’s a lot of hard work for Wil.
in note 2:
Elisabeth looked after C.M.L. du Quesne van Bruchem-Van Willis; see letter 426, n. 1. Mr van Gogh had...
430 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, between Monday, 18 and Saturday, 23 February 1884.
in translation:
...iginally came from you and that I borrowed from Lies — the poems of François Coppée. I knew only ...
451 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Wednesday, 2 July 1884.
in translation:
...s gone to Noordwijk, and that’s a good thing. Lies has been here, but I thought that her work hadn�...
in note 10:
Their sister Elisabeth had aspirations as a writer. Mrs van Gogh wrote this month about Vincent’s s...
452 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Sunday, 20 July 1884.
in note 5:
... allusion to a statue of Apollo in a letter to his sister Elisabeth dated 13 October 1885 (FR b904).
489 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Saturday, 4 April 1885.
in note 2:
Elisabeth van Gogh later recalled: ‘When Father died and Mrs Poots wanted to see Father once again,...
490 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Monday, 6 April 1885.
in note 14:
...rch 1889 it was these very ‘youngsters’ – Lies and Willemien – who made their shares availabl...
in note 9:
In a memoir of her sister Lies, Anna wrote (probably in 1923): ‘The summer that Pa died I spent sev...
493 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Monday, 13 April 1885.
in translation:
... course, things are all right with Ma and the sisters — nevertheless I see and feel it’s so much...
507 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 9 June 1885.
in note 10:
...n Hoorn. Kerssemakers and Vincent’s sister Elisabeth remembered the nest collection – wren’s n...
523 To Hendrik Jan Furnée. Nuenen, Wednesday, 5 August 1885.
in note 2:
...ve up his share of the estate. In March 1889 Elisabeth and Willemien made their shares available to ...
536 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 20 October 1885.
in note 1:
... is clear from what Theo wrote to his sister Elisabeth on 13 October 1885 that he had faith in Vince...
552 To Theo van Gogh. Antwerp, between Tuesday, 12 and Saturday, 16 January 1886.
in note 10:
... emerges from a letter written by his sister Elisabeth during this period. On 21 January 1886 she wr...
615 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Monday, 28 May 1888.
in translation:
Our two sisters will doubtless be quite happy to come to Paris and it won’t do them any harm, that�...
in note 7:
Theo wanted his sisters Lies and Willemien to come to Paris. In the end Willemien came alone and stay...
626 To Willemien van Gogh. Arles, between Saturday, 16 and Wednesday, 20 June 1888.
in note 14:
...n Gogh’s family and friends either. Theo sent Lies a copy on 13 October 1885, and Andries Bonger wr...
635 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Sunday, 1 July 1888.
in translation:
Good that you’re bringing our sisters over.
642 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Sunday, 15 July 1888.
in translation:
If our sisters could bring us some more wood engravings and things like Gavarni’s La masquerade hum...
660 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Monday, 13 August 1888.
in note 13:
...til early September (letter 672). Originally Elisabeth was to have gone with her; cf. letter 615, n....
736 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Thursday, 17 January 1889.
in note 14:
On 24 January 1889 Theo wrote to his sisters Elisabeth and Willemien: ‘Fortunately I have good news...
747 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Monday, 18 February 1889.
in note 8:
Willemien and her sister Elisabeth were nursing Catharina du Quesne van Bruchem-Van Willis (see lette...
749 Theo van Gogh to Vincent van Gogh. Paris, Saturday, 16 March 1889.
in note 1:
Several days earlier, the sisters Elisabeth and Willemien had placed their share of the inheritance o...
762 Theo van Gogh to Vincent van Gogh. Paris, Wednesday, 24 April 1889.
in translation:
...r than I can tell you. We left Mother and the sisters in perfect health. Ma seems to be getting yo...
764 To Willemien van Gogh. Arles, between about Sunday, 28 April and Thursday, 2 May 1889.
in translation:
I don’t know if Lies is in Soesterberg at the moment, if she’s there, kind regards from me.
in note 17:
Elisabeth and Willemien were nursing the sick Mrs du Quesne in Soesterberg, as emerges from Theo’s ...
767 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Thursday, 2 May 1889.
in translation:
...es, in the future there would possibly be our sisters too for whom we should try to provide. Perhaps...
in note 5:
Vincent is referring to Willemien and Elisabeth; Anna, the eldest of the three sisters, was already m...
771 Jo van Gogh-Bonger to Vincent van Gogh. Paris, Wednesday, 8 May 1889.
in translation:
Lies and Wil have a little plan to come here together this summer, how I’d like that, particularl...
783 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Tuesday, 25 June 1889.
in translation:
I have received, from one of our sisters probably, a book by Rod which is not bad but whose title, Le...
... book has made a great impression on our good sisters. Wil had moreover spoken to me of it, but the ...
785 To Willemien van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Tuesday, 2 July 1889.
in translation:
...nt mastery of my mind to write. I thank you and Lies for the Rod book which I’ve finished and which...
in note 4:
...uchem-Van Willis, a cancer patient nursed by Elisabeth and Willemien, had died in Soesterberg on 17 ...
798 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Monday, 2 September 1889.
in translation:
...inting, and I’d very much like to give one to Lies as well on the same occasion, who doesn’t have...
in note 10:
...other and Willemien; see letter 803, n. 4. Lies van Gogh had long had in her possession the small Nu...
800 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Thursday, 5 and Friday, 6 September 1889.
in translation:
...se I want to do some more repetitions for the sisters too, and if I undertake new autumnal effects I...
...paintings for Holland, for Mother and the two sisters that will make three, i.e. the reaper, the bed...
in note 31:
...his mother and Willemien, see letter 803, n. 4. Lies must be the second sister referred to here (see ...
806 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Saturday, 28 September 1889.
in translation:
...me some pleasure to ensure that our sister or sisters have a small collection of paintings. I’ll d...
811 To Anna van Gogh-Carbentus. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Monday, 21 October 1889.
in translation:
... do with them as you wish, and give the other sisters a couple of them if you like, that’s why I�...
826 To Anna van Gogh-Carbentus. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Monday, 9 or Tuesday, 10 December 1889.
in translation:
...ople around again’ when Anna’s children and Lies were with you. Wil described the house to me in ...
845 Jo van Gogh-Bonger to Vincent van Gogh. Paris, Wednesday, 29 January 1890.
in note 2:
...Mrs van Gogh (see letter 850, n. 2), his sister Lies and the art critic Jan Veth. Mrs van Gogh wrote ...
856 To Willemien van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Wednesday, 19 February 1890.
in translation:
...s you affectionately in thought. If our other sisters would also like to have canvases you can ask T...
864 To Anna van Gogh-Carbentus and Willemien van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Tuesday, 29 April 1890.
in translation:
...at all is well with you both, and with Anna and Lies too. I wrote to Theo today and sent him several ...

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7 essay items found

Correspondents / Family members
in correspondents_2:
...o make for ‘the two sisters’ (Willemien and Lies). Only in letters to his mother did he ask after...
...f letters between Vincent and his middle sister Lies, of which there is now no trace. In 1880 she bec...
See the letter from Lies van Gogh to Theo and Jo van Gogh, 29 June 1890 (FR b2413). The letter in que...
Publication history / A flood of supplementary publications
in publications_4:
...f personal recollections by Van Gogh’s sister Lies of 1910 was published in a German translation in...
Du Quesne-Van Gogh 1911 and Du Quesne-Van Gogh 1913.
Correspondents / Preservation of the letters
in correspondents_4:
...b7117), possibly by H. Nauta, who wrote to Elisabeth du Quesne-Van Gogh on 31 August 1927(FR b5301).
Van Gogh’s sister Elisabeth later recalled that Tersteeg had ‘a chiffonier with drawers full of l...
Biographical & historical context / The financial backgrounds
in context_3:
... gave his mother 1,000 francs and Willemien and Lies 678 francs.FR b2206. Vincent felt guilty about T...
Biographical & historical context / The immediate family circle
in context_4:
Elisabeth (‘Lies’) Huberta van Gogh (1859-1936) went to boarding school in Leeuwarden in 1873, an...
Publication history / The first standard editions
in publications_3:
...h machine began to turn. Van Gogh’s sister Elisabeth (Lies) wrote a memoir, Persoonlijke herinneri...
Du Quesne-Van Gogh 1910. The book was translated into German and English (Du Quesne-Van Gogh 1911 and...
...’s rapturous outpourings and the idealizing tenor of Elisabeth du Quesne-Van Gogh’s little book.
Biographical & historical context / The family and children of the Reverend and Mrs Van Gogh
in context_1:
...er five children, in order, were Anna, Theo, Elisabeth, Willemien and Cor. It must have been a pleas...
.... During the time when their daughters Anna and Lies were away at boarding school in Leeuwarden they ...
...ers a quarter in 1874 (FR b2733). In 1875, when Lies was at a boarding school in Tiel, the expenses w...
...Anna married quite soon after finishing school, Lies found a permanent position, but Willemien had di...
The family loved fairytales. Lies wrote to Jo Bonger: ‘I hope that you know Andersen’s fairytales...
...rk, gave some of them a gnawing sense of guilt. Lies ‘always had such a feeling of self-reproach, a...
FR b2226, Lies to Theo, 9 January 1876.

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3 other items found

Documentation
in documentation:
...you for it. Warm regards from Ma and from everyone. Lies has to leave tomorrow.
... to Theo van Gogh. Etten, 30 December 1877. Elisabeth van Gogh
Your loving Lies’Lies
...ny firm news as to whether Lies will come on Wednesday but think she will, and t...
...n Gogh to Elisabeth van Gogh. Paris, 19 April 1887 (FR b910).Elisabeth van Gogh
...van Gogh to Elisabeth van Gogh. Paris, 15 May 1887 (FR b912).Elisabeth van Gogh
...uppose you have written to Lies. I can’t do it at the moment. Only tomorrow wi...
Overview of all the letters
in overview:
Lies van Gogh, sister
Chronology
in 1859:
16 May His sister Elisabeth (Lies) is born.

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63 letters, 7 essay items and 3 other items found

63 letters found

7 essay items found

3 other items found

Vincent van Gogh, The Letters