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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...
004 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Tuesday, 28 January 1873.
in translation:
I expect a letter from Anna soon. She’s rather lazy about writing these days. You ought to surprise...
in note 10:
Anna Cornelia van Gogh, Van Gogh’s eldest sister, was attending boarding school in Leeuwarden in th...
005 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Monday, 17 March 1873.
in translation:
I heard from Anna that you had your portrait taken. If you can spare another, I commend myself.
in note 5:
...t this refers to. Theo had sent the portrait to Anna, via his parents, shortly before 19 February (FR...
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....
You’ll surely have heard that Anna is at home and not well. It’s a bad start to her holiday, but ...
in note 11:
On Friday, 11 July, Anna had arrived, ill, in Helvoirt; she had a fever and a severe headache (FR b26...
014 To Willem and Caroline van Stockum-Haanebeek. London, between about Thursday, 16 October and Friday, 31 October 1873.
in translation:
Our Anna has passed her examinations in English and in needlework, you can imagine how delighted she ...
in note 1:
Anna had passed her exam in English around 3 October (FR b2666), and her exam in needlework shortly b...
019 To Theo van Gogh. London, Friday, 20 February 1874.
in note 9:
On 24 February 1874 Anna, in Leeuwarden, wrote a letter to Theo in which she told of a letter she had...
020 To Caroline and Willem van Stockum-Haanebeek. London, Tuesday, 3 March 1874.
in translation:
Now I have a piece of news for you; our Anna will perhaps be coming here. You can imagine how wonderf...
in note 3:
Van Gogh’s sister Anna was planning, after studying French, to go to England to work (FR b2689).
021 To Theo van Gogh. London, Monday, 30 March 1874.
in translation:
As regards Anna, I haven’t heard anything more.
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).
024 To Betsy Tersteeg. Helvoirt, Tuesday, 7 July 1874.
in translation:
...onday I’m going back to London with my sister Anna, to the house I’ve drawn for you, and then I�...
in note 2:
...in connection with the departure of Vincent and Anna for London (FR b2709 and b2710). Van Gogh’s fa...
026 To Theo van Gogh. London, Tuesday, 21 July 1874.
in translation:
Anna and I arrived in London safe and sound, and will manage here somehow.
in note 4:
Vincent and Anna arrived in London on Wednesday, 15 July. Theo had been informed immediately, his par...
in note 2:
...a photograph after Matthijs Maris’s Margaret. Anna, in fact, wrote about it to Theo on 30 July 1874...
027 To Theo van Gogh. London, Friday, 31 July 1874.
in translation:
Anna is managing well, we go on wonderful walks together. It’s so beautiful here, if only one has a...
Anna and I look at the newspaper faithfully every day and answer the advertisements if there are any....
I wish you well; write to us again soon. Anna takes quite some pleasure in paintings, and has rather ...
...gine how wonderful it is for me to be here with Anna. Tell Mr T. that the paintings arrived in good o...
in note 14:
During a Bank Holiday, Vincent and Anna went together to Dulwich, where the famous Picture Gallery is...
in note 13:
...o: ‘Vincent did a fair amount of drawing, for Lies, the bedroom window and a piece of the front doo...
in note 7:
...��s letter to Theo in response to a letter from Anna and Vincent: ‘they haven’t yet succeeded in ...
028 To Theo van Gogh. London, Monday, 10 August 1874.
in translation:
Anna and I take a walk every evening; it’s already the beginning of autumn, and that makes nature e...
in note 11:
Van Gogh and his sister Anna moved to the home of John and Mrs Parker, Ivy Cottage, 395 Kennington Ro...
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 translation:
You ask about Anna, but we’ll discuss that another time.
in note 4:
...874 and that there was friction between him and Anna. His mood was sombre, his behaviour was consider...
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...
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 23:
This remark probably alludes to Anna’s new prospects, since Mr and Mrs van Gogh had decided that sh...
in translation:
...hink it good that Willemien is going along with Anna. I’d also have liked to be with all of you tha...
... my regards to the Van Stockums, Haanebeeks, Aunt Fie, Rooses, &c. What do you think about our Anna?
in note 2:
...he time being she would spend three months with Anna at Welwyn (Hertfordshire), a village north of Lo...
in note 3:
...had gone to visit his father at Helvoirt; Anna, Lies, Willemien and Cor were also there (FR b2350 and...
... Theo had gone to visit his father at Helvoirt; Anna, Lies, Willemien and Cor were also there (FR b23...
054 To Theo van Gogh. Paris, Wednesday, 6 October 1875.
in translation:
...oday I had the opportunity to send a package to Anna and Willemien. Among other things I sent her L�...
I also sent Anna several prints – including Rembrandt, Reading the Bible and The supper at Emmaus (...
...o much that things will continue to go well for Anna there. She keeps up her courage, I know so well ...
056 To Theo van Gogh. Paris, Thursday, 14 October 1875.
in translation:
I’ve had rather a good letter from Anna, I’m sending it to you to read, but send it back. Pa once...
057 To Theo van Gogh. Paris, Tuesday, 9 November 1875.
in translation:
Anna seems to get up early as well. She doesn’t have it easy, and she certainly makes herself very ...
059 To Theo van Gogh. Paris, Saturday, 4 December 1875.
in translation:
... a great deal to talk about. It’s a pity that Anna can’t come either; I so much hope that she’l...
060 To Theo van Gogh. Paris, Thursday, 9 December 1875.
in translation:
I received a letter from Anna today. I believe she’s reconciled to celebrating Christmas there, wit...
063 Willemien van Gogh to Vincent and Theo van Gogh. Welwyn, Sunday, 19 December 1875.
in note 1:
Willemien was staying with Anna.
064 Anna van Gogh to Vincent van Gogh. Welwyn, Thursday, 30 December 1875.
in translation:
Anna.
in note 1:
...is not identified more specifically, was probably a girl living in the same house as Anna in Welwyn.
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.
Good letters from the girls as well – Lies also speaks of you with so much warmth.
in note 16:
Anna and Willemien, both of whom lived in Welwyn.
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 ...
...how much we think of the others, of Theo, and of Anna and the other sisters and of little brother.
How much I thought of Anna on the boat; everything there reminded me of our journey together.
in note 13:
Albertina Ludovica Brugsma, a friend of Lies, who was staying with the Van Goghs in Etten.
078 To Theo van Gogh. Ramsgate, Friday, 21 April 1876.
in translation:
...good as to place the enclosed advertisement for Anna for that amount in some newspaper or other, you ...
I hope so much that Anna will find something; Willemien will be going home soon now.
...ten there on the wall, which you’ll find in Anna’s letter (enclosed for you to read, but send it ...
in note 3:
Willemien had been staying with Anna at Welwyn since mid-August 1875; on 13 May 1876 she travelled ba...
in note 2:
Anna, who lived and worked in Welwyn, was looking for a new situation (FR b954, b2765 and b2769). See...
079 To Theo van Gogh. Ramsgate, Friday, 28 April 1876.
in translation:
You’ll have received that letter containing Anna’s advertisement in good order. There’s also an...
I’ll be glad when Anna has found something, but situations like the ones she is looking for are rat...
081 To Theo van Gogh. Ramsgate, Saturday, 6 May 1876.
in translation:
...gue and Scheveningen as well. Did you know that Anna has received an answer to her advertisemen...
in note 3:
These letters did not result in work for Anna; on or about 11 May 1876, she wrote to her parents: ‘...
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 6:
...aux, Musée Goupil). Ill. 1768. Two years later Anna received the print as a wedding present: ‘We g...
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...
...llemien, Lies and Theo were in Etten on 21 May; Anna and Vincent, who were both living in England, co...
084 To Theo van Gogh. Welwyn, Saturday, 17 June 1876.
in translation:
...inutes). In the afternoon at 5, I was with our sister and was very glad to see her. She looks well an...
in note 1:
...s written when Van Gogh was visiting his sister Anna. On the same day Anna sent a short note to Theo,...
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...
...ome that you’d be coming home for a day while Anna and Lies were still there; write and tell me if ...
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...
Anna should be back in Welwyn by now, when she leaves Welwyn she’ll feel how much she loved it. You...
in note 11:
...godliness was viewed with dismay by his family. Lies, for example, wrote to Theo on 18 August: ‘I b...
in note 37:
Anna had left on Friday, 25 August and therefore could not have arrived in Welwyn before Saturday, 26...
in note 35:
Albertina Brugsma, a school friend of Lies, spent the Christmas holidays with the Van Gogh family in ...
094 To Anna van Gogh-Carbentus and Theo van Gogh. Isleworth, Friday, 13 October 1876.
in translation:
...weeks around Christmas to go to Holland, should Anna be able to come as well we could perhaps travel ...
095 To Theo van Gogh. Isleworth, between Monday, 23 and on or about Wednesday, 25 October 1876.
in note 29:
Anna must have described her impressions to Vincent in much the same way as she wrote about them to T...
in translation:
Herewith Anna’s last letter, she’ll probably think of Welwyn often once she has left it, everythi...
...s are now the colour of bronze. That haze which Anna writes about lay over the grass, and a brook run...
097 To Theo van Gogh. Isleworth, Friday, 10 November 1876.
in translation:
...he ivy in the snow. How I’d like to come with Anna, may she find something soon, I’ll write to he...
in note 9:
Anna, who was looking for a new situation in the Netherlands (cf. letter 78), wrote to Theo on 4 Octo...
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...
...a happy New Year. I’m writing in great haste, Anna and the girls and Cor went to Princenhage, and P...
in note 6:
His other sisters, Willemien and Elisabeth.
107 To Cornelis Marinus van Gogh. Dordrecht, Thursday, 8 March 1877.
in translation:
It’s wonderful that Anna has found another situation straightaway; I only hope it will be to her li...
in note 4:
Anna was to become a companion to the Van Houten family in Hengelo in the province of Overijssel in t...
110 To Theo van Gogh. Etten, Sunday, 8 April 1877.
in translation:
Today a postcard from Anna to say she arrived safely, may things go well for her. Haven’t you also ...
in note 6:
In Welwyn, Anna had lived with Mrs Catherine Stothard, her employer’s sister; Catherine’s son Ern...
in note 3:
After some delay, Anna entered the service of the Van Houten family in Hengelo as a governess (cf. le...
114 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Saturday, 19 May 1877.
in note 42:
...t about’ (FR b959, 7 May 1877). A letter from Anna to Theo confirms that the meeting did indeed tak...
116 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Monday, 28 May 1877.
in translation:
... from home yesterday, wrote back today, also to Anna. You must also write again soon, for I’m longi...
121 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Monday, 9 July 1877.
in translation:
Well, what do you say about Anna? It surprised me, and it seems to be serious too, and will certainly...
...ive her good things in life. On this occasion I congratulate you, too, as I have Anna and Pa and Ma.
in note 1:
Vincent’s sister Anna had received a proposal of marriage from Joan Marius van Houten, the son of t...
122 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Sunday, 15 July 1877.
in translation:
Ma wrote in her last letter something about ‘Anna’s house’, which is a new expression that does...
123 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Friday, 27 July 1877.
in translation:
...to work, though I still have to fill this page. Anna is in Leiden, as you surely know, and will come ...
in note 5:
...e means necessary’ (FR b2549, 6 August 1877). Lies wrote to her brother optimistically: ‘How wond...
124 To Hermanus Gijsbertus Tersteeg. Amsterdam, Friday, 3 August 1877.
in translation:
..., with something of the faith of old. My sister Anna is coming to Amsterdam today with my future brot...
125 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Friday, 3 August 1877.
in translation:
Yesterday a letter from Anna, who arrives today at 12:45 with Van Houten, am very much looking forwar...
126 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Sunday, 5 August 1877.
in translation:
...s of some use, and it was a real comfort to me. Anna left again yesterday for Hengelo, they had a lot...
in note 1:
Anna was a lady companion in Hengelo; see letter 107, n. 4.
128 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Monday, 27 August 1877.
in translation:
... thinking of what you were doing. Pa wrote that Anna had written a good letter home, she was busy bec...
Just had a good letter from Anna. Her letters are quite rare, so I’m sending you this one to read.
in note 17:
Anna would marry one year later, on 22 August 1878.
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...
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...
...e book Hermann und Dorothea by J.W. von Goethe. Anna received ‘a couple of testaments’ (prayer bo...
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...
140 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Sunday, 10 February 1878.
in note 21:
Anna would turn 23 on 17 February.
in translation:
...en and gone, it will have been a good day, with Anna there too, I’m longing for a letter from home ...
... very best, write soon, also congratulations on Anna’s birthday, even though it’s still to come, ...
in note 10:
Anna, who by now had been staying for some time with the Van Houten family in Hengelo, was ill and un...
141 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Monday, 18 and Tuesday, 19 February 1878.
in note 25:
Anna was to marry Joan van Houten in August.
in translation:
It was Anna’s birthday, and it was also a good day for me. Got up quite early and went in the morni...
...urney agreed with Pa. I’m longing to hear how Anna’s birthday was, in all likelihood she’ll cel...
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...
145 To Theo van Gogh. Etten, Monday, 22 July 1878.
in note 20:
Anna had been ill for some time; she was listless and suffered from stomach pains. Joan van Houten ha...
in translation:
Anna is but poorly, she’s so quiet and sometimes looks so very weak — poor sister — it seems to...
146 To Theo van Gogh. Etten, Monday, 5 August 1878.
in translation:
...or that matter — I’ll stay here until after Anna’s wedding and then leave for there as soon as ...
...he banns. Joan is coming tomorrow evening. Our sister, though, is still far from being as one would l...
...is summer with Uncle, may that happen, for once Anna is married things will be quiet again here at ho...
in note 7:
On Wednesday, 7 August, Anna and Joan van Houten were to register their banns. Vincent was planning t...
in note 2:
Anna van Gogh and Joan van Houten were to be married on 22 August 1878.
147 To Theo van Gogh. Etten, Thursday, 15 August 1878.
in translation:
...ely, with strong winds too. It was nice the day Anna and Joan registered their banns. Now that Joan i...
in note 3:
Anna and Joan were married on 22 August 1878; Vincent originally planned to leave for Brussels on the...
in note 2:
Although Anna was cheered by the situation, her relations with Vincent did not improve. She wrote to ...
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).
154 To Theo van Gogh. Cuesmes, between about Monday, 11 and Thursday, 14 August 1879.
in translation:
...entice — likewise that of my very dear sister Anna to devote myself to the baker’s trade or many ...
163 To Theodorus van Gogh and Anna van Gogh-Carbentus. Brussels, on or about Wednesday, 16 February 1881.
in translation:
...ter sending my regards to everyone and after congratulating you on Anna’s birthday, and believe me
in note 13:
Anna turned 26 on 17 February.
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 ...
239 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Thursday, 22 June 1882.
in note 7:
... left I secretly gave him a piece of paper from Anna with some ox-tongue, but not a lot, to which I a...
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...
in note 9:
Willemien was on holiday with her sister Anna and Joan van Houten and their family in a boarding hous...
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).
464 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Thursday, 2 October 1884.
in note 1:
... and this agitated her greatly and she wrote to Anna about it so that she could tell you. Still it tu...
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 translation:
...ver, I still very much regret the incident with Anna that decided me in this respect. What she said t...
As to Anna — you mustn’t think that I’ll continue to take something like that amiss or hold a g...
in note 10:
...Nuenen on 30 March 1886 and went to Breda first. Her daughter Anna lived in Leiderdorp, near Leiden.
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...
...er friend Line Kruysse about this incident with Anna: ‘[Vincent’s] disappointments often embitter...
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...
501 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Wednesday, 6 May 1885.
in note 5:
Their sister Anna’s objections were the reason for Vincent’s move out of the parental home. See l...
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...
540 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Wednesday, 11 November 1885.
in translation:
...what I’m telling you. If Ma goes on a trip to Anna, to Amsterdam, to Cor before long — it seems t...
in note 2:
...ogh wanted to go via Leiden (where her daughter Anna lived), to Amsterdam, where she and her daughter...
548 To Theo van Gogh. Antwerp, on or about Thursday, 17 December 1885.
in translation:
...at home while they’re with my charming sister Anna and other members of my family who are also so c...
in note 8:
...emien were evidently staying in Leiderdorp with Anna and Joan van Houten-Van Gogh and their two daugh...
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...
...in-law Joan van Houten and his sister Anna van Houten-Van Gogh: ‘Thank you very much for your lette...
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...
...incent is referring to Willemien and Elisabeth; Anna, the eldest of the three sisters, was already ma...
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 11:
... Herengracht 100 in Leiden. Van Gogh’s sister Anna, her husband Joan van Houten and their daughters...
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 ...
in note 1:
...ertina van Gogh. Baarn 1969. Vincent’s sister Anna and her husband, Joan van Houten, had two daught...
831 To Anna van Gogh-Carbentus. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Monday, 23 December 1889.
in translation:
...om Cor? It’s very good that you’re close to Anna and will see your grandchildren around you. Give...
in note 7:
Vincent’s sister Anna and her husband, Joan van Houten, had two daughters, Sara and Annie.
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...
863 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Tuesday, 29 April 1890.
in note 4:
Only Vincent’s elder sister Anna received at some point a copy after Millet: Woman spinning (after ...
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 ...
...y hope that all is well with you both, and with Anna and Lies too. I wrote to Theo today and sent him...
899 To Anna van Gogh-Carbentus and Willemien van Gogh. Auvers-sur-Oise, between about Thursday, 10 and Monday, 14 July 1890.
in translation:
How big Anna’s children must be by now.
in note 2:
Vincent’s sister Anna had two children: Sara, who was 10 years old at this time, and Annie, who was...

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9 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...
...rked at home with us; after my father’s death Anna thought it would be more peaceful for Ma if he w...
... he was young Van Gogh spent a lot of time with Anna, who was two years younger than him. Not one of ...
... back of a drawing might have been addressed to Anna; see RM1. The poem RM12 could also have been int...
See Documentation, letters from Anna van Gogh to Theo van Gogh, 6 January 1874 and 24 February 1874 (...
Later in 1874 Anna lived with Vincent in London for several months, but it was not entirely a success...
Letter from Anna van Gogh to Theo van Gogh, 28 April 1875 (FR b2333).
Letter from Anna van Gogh to Theo van Gogh, 13 August 1878 (FR b989).
Publication history / De brieven 1990: a large edition for a small readership
in publications_6:
Anna to Vincent (letter 64);
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...
...ned letters he received. The letters from Theo, Anna and Willemien and the one from Van Rappard are t...
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...
Anna Cornelia van Gogh (1855-1930) went to boarding school in Leeuwarden, and lived in England from 1...
...1862-1941) travelled to England with her sister Anna at the age of thirteen, and remained there for n...
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.
...incent. The other five children, in order, were Anna, Theo, Elisabeth, Willemien and Cor. It must hav...
...e charity. During the time when their daughters Anna and Lies were away at boarding school in Leeuwar...
... a certain point.See The financial backgrounds. Anna married quite soon after finishing school, Lies ...
...r the young Vincent’s literary preferences see Pabst 1988, and for Anna’s poetry album FR b4415.
...m any pleasure’ (FR b2267). It was his sister Anna who thought that life would be more peaceful for...
...an chase after a high position’ (letter 348). Anna was aware of class distinctions at an early age,...
...r life so as to be close to her eldest daughter Anna and her grandchildren, and from there she contin...
Biographical & historical context / The letter-writing culture and Van Gogh’s position within it
in context_2:
...o Theo: ‘I’ve had rather a good letter from Anna, I’m sending it to you to read, but send it ba...
...rs, bits of seaweed or knitted socks. ‘It’s Anna’s birthday on 17 February. We’re writing to ...

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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...
Letter from Anna van Gogh to Theo van Gogh, written in English. Leeuwarden, Tues...
... we hope for the best. Good news from Anna and Jo. And their little Sara, they ...
...earer of good news, Jo and Anna also wanted to write. Oh Theo, must the year end...
Overview of all the letters
in overview:
Lies van Gogh, sister
from Anna van Gogh, sister
... RM12) may have been intended for Vincent’s sister Anna.
Chronology
in 1885:
...e family home after an argument with his sister Anna and goes to live in the studio he rents from Sch...
in 1876:
12-17 June Walks to London, where he stays for two days before visiting Anna in Welwyn (84).
20 December He and Anna travel back to Etten together from England. Theo is also there for Christmas...
in 1874:
... The Hague (23, 25, FR b2709-b2710). His sister Anna travels back to London with him and also lodges ...
Shortly after 10 August He and Anna go to live with John Parker and his family at 395 Kennington Roa...
24 August Anna moves to Welwyn to take up a position as a teacher (FR b2715).
in 1855:
17 February His sister Anna is born.
in 1859:
16 May His sister Elisabeth (Lies) is born.

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111 letters, 9 essay items and 3 other items found

111 letters found

9 essay items found

3 other items found

Vincent van Gogh, The Letters