39 letters found
- 200 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Saturday, 14 January 1882.
- in note 6:
...en’, and her four-year-old daughter Maria Wilhelmina Hoornik; cf. letter 207, n. 2 and letter 228: ...
- 207 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Friday, 3 March 1882.
- in translation:
...ho’s just like a figure by E. Frère, and her daughter, 30 or so, and a younger child of 10 or 12.
- 224 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Sunday, 7 May 1882.
- in translation:
... been able, thank God, to preserve her and her child from hunger and cold by sharing my own bread wi...
...or her confinement. No wonder she was ill, the child was the wrong way round and she had to have an ...
- 227 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 14 or Monday, 15 May 1882.
- in note 5:
...o lived for only eight days. Her daughter Maria Wilhelmina was born on 7 May 1877. In 1879 she had a ...
- in translation:
... The person who is the father of Christien’s child reasoned exactly in the spirit of your letter, ...
...n that person died she was left alone with her child — deserted — with nothing. She had to take ...
...lse? – I would despair and Christien and the child would perish. You may think I’m exaggerating ...
...erably not, I need it for drawing. (And Christien and the child couldn’t pose without heads.)child
... preferably not, I need it for drawing. (And Christien and the child couldn’t pose without heads.)
- 228 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Tuesday, 16 May 1882.
- in translation:
...d, things will go better for Christien and her child and myself. And to achieve that, I must venture...
...ing out as children. As for her mother and her child, the latter removes her stain; I have respect f...
...— but what I have is as much yours and the child’s as mine. Christien doesn’t know the detai...
- 229 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Thursday, 18 May 1882.
- in translation:
...ctor thought she was better than in March. The child is healthy and he has given her instructions ab...
...portantly, saved the life of Christien and the child up to now. In a sense, though, I’m guilty if ...
- 241 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Saturday, 1 July 1882.
- in translation:
...ing I’m going to see her with her mother and child, Sunday being the only day on which she’s all...
- 242 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 2 July 1882.
- in translation:
...r with a jolly nice little boy. Her mother and child and I went there together — you can imagine h...
- 246 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Saturday, 15 and Sunday, 16 July 1882.
- in translation:
...ney went well. Sien’s mother and Sien’s little girl had gone to Schenkweg and were waiting for u...
... tell you that we, namely the woman and the two children and I, spent the night in the big attic.
...don’t find the company of the woman and the children odd, but feel precisely as if I’m more in my...
- 247 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Tuesday, 18 July 1882.
- in translation:
...me here this morning — and saw Sien and the children. I would have wished that he could at least ha...
...nd that child? Where on earth did I get the idea of living with a woman, and with children as well?
- 248 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Wednesday, 19 July 1882.
- in translation:
... is to preserve the lives of Sien and her two children. I don’t want her to sink back into that ter...
- 250 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 23 July 1882.
- in note 19:
...ritten earlier about the ‘model’ who had a child, but Theo did not know then that this was Sien ...
- in translation:
... help it that you didn’t know about Sien’s child, because when I told you about her I certainly ...
- 301 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Saturday, 13 January 1883.
- in note 3:
...s from this period with Sien’s daughter Maria Wilhelmina, then aged 5½ years, are known, including...
- in translation:
The woman and the children are with me at the moment. There’s a big difference when I think back to...
And the poor little girl — you can see from the drawing that the deep misery of the past hasn’t b...
...d away for lack of mother’s milk, and if that girl had been left more and more unclean and neglecte...
- 307 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Sunday, 4 February 1883.
- in translation:
...n. Now, my dear friend, this woman had another child as well, a sickly, neglected lamb. It was an un...
...end Rappard, I live with a poor woman and two children, and there are so many who will have no dealin...
- 309 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Thursday, 8 February 1883.
- in translation:
...s a result of taking in the woman and her two children I experienced some unpleasantness, rather nast...
- 312 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 11 February 1883.
- in translation:
...ome another bond between us, but now with the children, you understand, she’s got enough on her min...
- 322 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Friday, 2 March 1883.
- in translation:
...t this with the orphan man, the woman and the children — I’m getting splendid things. There’s n...
- 327 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 11 March 1883.
- in note 9:
...discussion, which shows Sien and probably her daughter. This could mean that Van Gogh also paid her t...
- 330 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 18 March 1883.
- in translation:
...erficial one of a drawing in natural chalk, the girl at the cradle, done in the same way as the woman...
- 339 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Wednesday, 2 or Thursday, 3 May 1883.
- in note 3:
...™s disapproving attitude towards Sien and her children during a visit in July 1882 (he also wrote abo...
- 341 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Wednesday, 9 May 1883.
- in translation:
...so because I’ve taken the woman and her two children into my house, and they think they can’t dec...
- 342 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Thursday, 10 May 1883.
- in translation:
...oy, above all, is doing extremely well, though — the girl was very ill in the past and neglected.
- 349 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 3 June 1883.
- in translation:
...y has a very good side in that both woman and children learn to be thrifty and the man learns to work...
- 362 To Theo van Gogh, The Hague, on or about Friday, 13 July 1883.
- in translation:
...€˜misconduct’, that I live with a woman and children without being married. For a time C.M. also wa...
- 364 To Theo van Gogh, The Hague, Sunday, 22 July 1883.
- in translation:
..., but it’s the thought of the woman and the children, those poor lambs, whom one would like to keep...
- 368 To Theo van Gogh, The Hague, on or about Friday, 27 July 1883.
- in translation:
... it’s just like that with the woman and the children. When I’m with them and the little fellow co...
- 378 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Tuesday, 21 August 1883.
- in note 10:
...d free, while in the case of the six-year-old daughter the reduction of 50% for children aged between...
- in translation:
But my intention would then be to go with the woman and children.
- 380 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 2 September 1883.
- in translation:
...d follow a straighter course. Since she has 2 children, however, it’s a very difficult case, but wh...
...m — as long as you behave in a way that the children still find a Mother in you, even if you’re o...
- 381 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Wednesday, 5 September 1883.
- in translation:
...use again, but I didn’t want to lose touch with her, because I love her and the children too much.
- 382 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Thursday, 6 September 1883.
- in translation:
...s, a great melancholy about the woman and the children, but it couldn’t be otherwise — at the sam...
- 383 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Friday, 7 or Saturday, 8 September 1883.
- in translation:
...that would be as bad as murdering her and her children if it weren’t that they did it in their obdu...
- 384 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Monday, 10 September 1883.
- in translation:
...out it unless she herself cooperated. But the children to whom one’s heart goes out? I couldn’t d...
- 385 To Theo van Gogh. Hoogeveen, Tuesday, 11 and Wednesday, 12 September 1883.
- in translation:
The woman and her children were with me until the last minute, of course, and the parting wasn’t ve...
- 386 To Theo van Gogh. Hoogeveen, on or about Friday, 14 September 1883.
- in translation:
...with great melancholy about the woman and the children, if only they were looked after — oh, it’s...
- 390 To Theo van Gogh. Hoogeveen, on or about Wednesday, 26 September 1883.
- in translation:
...ate of my sweet, poor little lad and the other child, cut me to the quick. I’d still like to help ...
- 398 To Theo van Gogh. Nieuw-Amsterdam, on or about Monday, 22 October 1883.
- in translation:
...’d written to her, but is worried about the children and is going out to work as a temporary help. ...
- 405 To Theo van Gogh. Nieuw-Amsterdam, Sunday, 11 November 1883.
- in translation:
...y. Seems to regret some things from the past. Children healthy and well. My pity and affection for he...
- 417 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Wednesday, 26 December 1883.
- in translation:
...ely as a washerwoman) to keep herself and her children, consequently has done her duty, and that in g...
...is on now, alone, working for herself and her children. Yet my heart is strongly drawn to her with th...
- 418 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Friday, 28 December 1883.
- in translation:
...woman also misses me as I was for her and her children, namely that I loved them, and still feel as m...
And as for the woman and the children, she’s attached to me, and that even after the parting, and I...
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- Chronology
- in 1882:
15 July
Sien, her five-year-old daughter Maria and her newborn son Willem move in with him (246)...
Term(s):
Dated between:
29 September 1872 and 31 July 1890
Person:
Maria Wilhelmina Hoornik (1877-1940) daughter of Clasiena Maria Hoornik
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