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003 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, mid-January 1873.
in translation:
How pleasant those days at Christmas were, I think of them so often; they’ll also long be remembered by...
015 To Theo van Gogh. London, Wednesday, 19 November 1873.
in note 9:
...in a paper wrapper or packaging, possibly with a view to increasing their suitability as Christmas presents.
017 To Theo van Gogh. London, beginning of January 1874.
in translation:
...you do in The Hague. I hope you had a nice Christmas, just as I did. Well, old chap, I wish you...
in note 9:
During the 1873 Christmas holidays Theo was visiting the Tersteeg family, which Mrs van Gogh took as proof...
RM03 Copied poems: H.W. Longfellow, ‘Afternoon in February’ and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, ‘Three kings’ daughters fair’. Probably between December 1874 and March 1876.
in date note:
...It is quite possible that Vincent gave it to Theo at Christmas 1874, when they were both visiting their parents (FR b2312), since ‘Kerstmis 74’ (Christmas ’74) is written at the bottom in another hand...
033 To Theo van Gogh. London, Saturday, 8 May 1875.
in note 4:
...I’m very sorry that I visited him during the Christmas holidays and was a burden to him. If I had had...
038 To Theo van Gogh. Paris, Thursday, 15 July 1875.
in note 1:
...Paris, where he arrived on 26 October. He spent Christmas with his parents and then travelled from Helvoirt...
041 To Theo van Gogh. Paris, between Monday, 16 August and Wednesday, 1 September 1875.
in translation:
...see each other. That probably won’t be before Christmas; I believe it’s better not to ask for...
043 To Egbert Borchers. Paris, Thursday, 2 September 1875.
in translation:
...gave me pleasure. I hope to come to Holland at Christmas and, if I can, immediately to The Hague, and we...
046 To Theo van Gogh. Paris, on or about Thursday, 9 September 1875.
in translation:
...Bible) until we’ve seen each other again at Christmas, and do what I told you, go often in the evenings...
050 To Theo van Gogh. Paris, Saturday, 25 September 1875.
in translation:
How I’m longing for Christmas, but let’s be patient, that time will come soon...
...I’ll be needing a good deal of money around Christmas for my trip &c. I hope, though, that it won...
059 To Theo van Gogh. Paris, Saturday, 4 December 1875.
in translation:
...time for Christmas to come, don’t you think? We’ll have a great deal to talk about. It’s a pity that Anna can’t come either; I so much hope that she’ll have a good time then too. Christmas in England is...
in note 2:
Their sister Willemien was also not going to be there at Christmas.
060 To Theo van Gogh. Paris, Thursday, 9 December 1875.
in translation:
...today. I believe she’s reconciled to celebrating Christmas there, with a will and enthusiasm, and...
062 To Theo van Gogh. Paris, Monday, 13 December 1875.
in translation:
I’m longing for Christmas and to see you, old boy, but now we’ll be there soon enough. I’ll probably be...
063 Willemien van Gogh to Vincent and Theo van Gogh. Welwyn, Sunday, 19 December 1875.
in translation:
How wonderful it will be at home at Christmas. It’s been very cold here, but now it’s very mild. Theo, how awful about your leg, is it now completely better? We’ll...
in note 2:
Vincent and Theo spent Christmas with their parents in Etten. Vincent arrived on Thursday, 23 or Friday, 24...
064 Anna van Gogh to Vincent van Gogh. Welwyn, Thursday, 30 December 1875.
in translation:
...We got a great deal of satisfaction from our Christmas tree at school. It was a great joy to see such...
073 To Theo van Gogh. Paris, Tuesday, 28 March 1876.
in translation:
...probably leave here on Friday evening to be home on Saturday morning at the same time as at Christmas.
in note 1:
...to Theo); see also FR b956. Regarding Van Gogh’s visit to his parents at Christmas, see letter 63, n. 2.
076 To Theodorus van Gogh and Anna van Gogh-Carbentus. Ramsgate, Monday, 17 April 1876.
in translation:
...the first time. And that first homecoming at Christmas. Saturday and Sunday. How much I thought of...
086 To Theo van Gogh. Isleworth, Saturday, 8 July 1876.
in note 8:
...asked me to save it for travelling expenses at Christmas. I hasten to tell you this now, because I’m so...
089 To Theo van Gogh. Isleworth, Saturday, 26 August 1876.
in translation:
...brother Vincent I’m already looking forward to Christmas, two years ago we took that walk in...
...higher than your thoughts. When Lies came home at Christmas we had such a nice reunion. She and...
in arrangement:
...belonged to letter 92 (Van Gogh mentions Christmas both on this sheet and in that letter), we have...
in note 35:
...Brugsma, a school friend of Lies, spent the Christmas holidays with the Van Gogh family in 1875 (FR...
092 To Theo van Gogh. Isleworth, Tuesday, 3 October 1876.
in translation:
...so badly. I wrote and told them that, if possible, you and I would walk to Zundert sometime at Christmas.
093 To Theo van Gogh. Isleworth, Saturday, 7 and Sunday, 8 October 1876.
in note 3:
...and chapter 1, ‘Les étrennes de la mansarde’ (The garret’s Christmas gifts). Cf. Pabst, 1988, p. 66.
in note 4:
...the last two stanzas of H.W. Longfellow’s ‘Christmas bells’ from the book Flower-de-Luce. See...
094 To Anna van Gogh-Carbentus and Theo van Gogh. Isleworth, Friday, 13 October 1876.
in translation:
...you are. I’ll have two or three weeks around Christmas to go to Holland, should Anna be able to...
...better when it arrives. It is indeed wonderful that Christmas falls in the winter. Oh how I’m...
095 To Theo van Gogh. Isleworth, between Monday, 23 and on or about Wednesday, 25 October 1876.
in translation:
...and for what Ma wrote, so we’ll wait until Christmas, and then may God let us see one another again in...
...well soon, old chap, oh, how I long for Christmas. Herewith Anna’s last letter, she’ll probably...
...mist. It will surely be winter soon, how fortunate that Christmas is in the winter, that’s why I like winter better than any other season, Christmas and New Year’s Eve are even better than the...
096 To Theo van Gogh. Isleworth, Friday, 3 November 1876.
in translation:
...God you’re recovering, I long so much for Christmas – perhaps that time will come before we know...
...s end, Yes, everywhere is God. How I long for Christmas and to see all of you, old boy, it seems...
097 To Theo van Gogh. Isleworth, Friday, 10 November 1876.
in translation:
...heading towards winter, and many dread it, but Christmas is wonderful, it’s like the moss on the...
098 To Theodorus van Gogh and Anna van Gogh-Carbentus. Isleworth, Friday, 17 and Saturday, 18 November 1876.
in translation:
...pass and we approach winter, and the congenial Christmas festivities. Tomorrow I have to be in two...
100 To Theo van Gogh. Etten, Sunday, 31 December 1876.
in note 1:
Like Theo, Vincent had spent the Christmas holidays at home in Etten.
in note 4:
...so much to speak with Vincent when he comes at Christmas, to see what will become of him. I sometimes fear...
103 To Theo van Gogh. Dordrecht, Monday, 26 February 1877.
in translation:
...talking, he told me about Menton and about a Christmas he had spent there, and I told him about...
104 To Theo van Gogh. Dordrecht, Wednesday, 28 February 1877.
in note 103:
...The haunted man (1848), ), which appeared in the Christmas books; the last time as the closing line. Cf...
108 To Theo van Gogh. Dordrecht, Friday, 16 March 1877.
in note 4:
...Christmas at the Pole, or God everywhere: a new Christmas story). This 32-page book cost 0.25 guilders. Another edition is Het kerstfeest aan de pool, of God overal. Een nieuw kersverhaal, translated from the French by J.P. Hasebroek, Utrecht n.d. [possibly 1873]. The original title was Noël au Pôle ou Dieu partout: quelques pages pour les enfants. Lausanne 1864 (Christmas at the Pole or God everywhere: a few pages for children). This edifying children’s book tells the story of the crew of a ship stranded on the North Pole. Several members of the crew have already died, and the morale and faith of the survivors is seriously weakened. By putting up a Christmas tree, the crew’s leader manages to restore trust and faith in Christ...
115 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Monday, 21 and Tuesday, 22 May 1877.
in note 18:
...after which a woodcut was published in the Christmas number of The Illustrated London News in 1878 (p...
127 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Saturday, 18 August 1877.
in translation:
...in any case we’ll be together in Etten for Christmas. Aunt Mina’s birthday was last Sunday and, as I...
131 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Tuesday, 18 September 1877.
in translation:
...one time but have now been destroyed, ‘Christmas Eve’, ‘The conflagration’ and others, it...
in note 28:
...conflagration’) Ill. 1000; La nuit de Noël (Christmas Eve), no. 78 Ill. 1001; Changement de garnizon...
133 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Tuesday, 30 October 1877.
in translation:
...do bring those things home with you at Christmas. Have bought from the Jew that lithograph after L...
...from Motley, I’ll show it to you at Christmas. Because here in town I’ve seen and walked over...
...the autumn, or during the dark days before Christmas), and it’s a place that immediately reminds...
...algebra and geometry, anyway, we’ll see — after Christmas I have to have lessons in those as...
...in Princenhage. I’m longing not a little for Christmas, do bring one thing and another with you...
...for and that there’s no hurry, and if necessary Christmas is soon enough. Now, I must get to work...
...vigour in these autumn days, and let it be Christmas again with us together again before we know it...
134 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Monday, 19 November 1877.
in translation:
I feel the need to write to you again, because I often think of you and long so much for Christmas, when we hope to see each other again. Well, the dark days before Christmas are already in sight, and behind them lies Christmas, just like the kindly light from the houses behind the rocks and the water that breaks against them on a dark...
...drawing that map of England that you’ll see at Christmas: If you look at a map of the world, you...
135 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Saturday, 24 and Sunday, 25 November 1877.
in translation:
...it only gets light so late in the dark days before Christmas and the workers don’t come until 7 o...
...have a few more of those maps by Stieler before Christmas. I’m studying now, and even if it costs...
...must do our best to travel together at Christmas, accept in thought a hearty handshake from Your...
136 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Monday, 3 and Tuesday, 4 December 1877.
in translation:
...get leave. Old boy, I long so much for Christmas and home and you; when you write, remember to...
...Old boy, if I were at university next Christmas, and already through the first difficulties of the...
...regards. I hope that he’ll go home for Christmas. Sent you today for St Nicholas two maps from...
...Dordrecht again together the Friday or Saturday before Christmas? It’s good to benefit as much as...
137 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Sunday, 9 December 1877.
in original text:
...heb ze dus dubbel. en daar ik wel een Christmas present wilde geven aan Harry Gladwell zoo hoop ik...
in translation:
...and because I did want to give Harry Gladwell a Christmas present I hope to send it to you for him...
...It’s a noble book, you’ll see it at Christmas, I was so happy with it that until today I’ve...
...etc. on the map of Brittany. Bring it along at Christmas, you know that I did that on the one I...
...I can’t tell you how much I long for Christmas. And may Pa be satisfied with what I’ve done. It...
...I hope he’ll be able to go to Lewisham at Christmas. You know that painting by Cuyp in the museum...
...like us to be in Etten the Sunday before Christmas. So goodbye for now, if I hear nothing more from...
138 To Theo van Gogh. Etten, Sunday, 30 December 1877.
in note 1:
Van Gogh spent the Christmas holidays with his parents.
139 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Wednesday, 9 and Thursday, 10 January 1878.
in translation:
...is well again, you know that he wasn’t well at Christmas. So write soon, and I wish you the very...
in note 7:
...Hague, or during his stay there shortly before Christmas 1877, when he travelled to Etten via The Hague...
141 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Monday, 18 and Tuesday, 19 February 1878.
in note 17:
...Christmas books. Van Gogh’s choice of words, ending with ‘Amen’, suggests that he is referring to the passage in which Philip Swidger is speaking: “‘I thankee, sir, I thankee!” said the old man...Ha ha! I remember – though I’m eighty-seven! ‘Lord keep my memory green!’ It’s a very good prayer, Mr. Redlaw ... ‘Lord keep my memory green!’ It’s very good and pious, sir. Amen! Amen!”’. In the Household Edition of 1878, illustrated by Frederick Barnard, the closing words were printed in a different font, and also used as an inscription on a portrait. See Christmas books. London [1878], p. 200 (quotation on p. 164)....
149 To Theo van Gogh. Wasmes, Thursday, 26 December 1878.
in translation:
...last few days, the dark days before Christmas. Then everything was reminiscent of the medieval...
...the man who was blind from his birth. On Christmas, of course, on the stable of Bethlehem, and...
176 To Anthon van Rappard. Etten, Saturday, 15 October 1881.
in translation:
...re thinking seriously of going to Brussels until Christmas to paint the nude. Well, I find that...
in note 8:
...it first appeared in Punch (16 December 1843, Christmas Number). Evidently Van Gogh had just heard of the...
191 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, between Thursday, 1 and Saturday, 3 December 1881.
in date note:
...see letter 192), returning there shortly before Christmas (see letter 193, Date). Because Van Gogh writes...
193 To Theo van Gogh. Etten, on or about Friday, 23 December 1881.
in date note:
...Hague, several days after 19 December, and Christmas 1881, when he leaves...
194 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Thursday, 29 December 1881.
in translation:
At Christmas I had a rather violent argument with Pa, and feelings ran so high that Pa said it would be...
245 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Thursday, 6 and Friday, 7 July 1882.
in translation:
...with her, it’s always that eternal poetry of Christmas night with the baby in the manger as the...
248 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Wednesday, 19 July 1882.
in translation:
...good progress again this autumn. Perhaps towards Christmas, thus when the year in question is up, I...
251 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Wednesday, 26 July 1882.
in note 11:
...chair (‘Gad’s Hill, Ninth of June 1870’), The Graphic, Christmas Number, 1870, after p. 24. Ill. 1934.
263 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, between about Tuesday, 12 and Sunday, 17 September 1882.
in note 3:
...Percy Thomas Macquoid appeared in the special Christmas number of The Illustrated London News of 1874...
273 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Sunday, 22 October 1882.
in note 32:
...1243). Other examples include Woodleigh Grange, in The Illustrated London News, Christmas number 1880, p. 29 (Ill. 1985) and Christmas reflections in The Illustrated London News (London, Witt Library; the source has...
275 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, between about Tuesday, 24 and about Friday, 27 October 1882.
in note 7:
...Harrow cricket match, in The Graphic 12 (1875), Christmas number, p. 23. Ill. 1964. It is an illustration...
in note 8:
...Illustrated London News 65 (16 December 1874), Christmas number, p. 12. It is an illustration for the...
in note 9:
Henry Robert Robertson, Christmas on the “Wave”, in The Illustrated London News 65 (16 December 1874), Christmas number, p. 17. Ill. 1281.
in note 21:
...Christmas is listed on the same line as the name Edelfelt, but no work with this title has been found in his oeuvre. Van Gogh probably meant Charles Stanley Reinhart, “Merry Christmas to you, old barebones!”, engraved by Frank French, in Harper’s Weekly 26 (16 December 1882), pp. 800-801. Ill. 1257. Moreover, the words ‘A Merry Christmas...
in note 22:
Alfred Edward Emslie, In sight of home: Christmas morning, engraved by Eugène Froment, in The Illustrated London News 77 (1880), Christmas Number, p. 12. Ill. 813.
in note 26:
The title Christmas hymn is too general for the print to be identified. Cf. in this connection [Anonymous], Christmas in Canada – Amateur carol singing at Longueuil on the St. Lawrence, in The Graphic 14 (30...
276 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Sunday, 29 October 1882.
in note 1:
...by Joseph Swain, in Punch 77 (27 December 1879), Christmas number, p. 295. Ill. 1369. (t*1281). The print...
277 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 29 October 1882.
in translation:
...sense within oneself of what Punch in the Christmas illustration calls Good will to all, that is...
in note 9:
For this Christmas print, Stirring the pudding in Punch, see letter 276, n. 1.
278 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Wednesday, 1 November 1882.
in original text:
...een gasthuis – waar geld te kort kwam, Christmas in the Workhouse van Herkomer, Homeless & hungry...
in translation:
...in a hospital — where money was short, Christmas in the workhouse by Herkomer, Homeless and...
in note 13:
Hubert von Herkomer, Christmas in a workhouse, engraved by Charles Roberts, in The Graphic 14 (25 December 1876), Christmas Number, p. 30. Ill. 166. (t*93).
279 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, Wednesday, 1 November 1882.
in note 8:
...probably means the print after Howard Pyle’s Christmas morning in Old New York, in Harper’s Weekly 24...
in note 11:
...2, chapter 3: ‘Chuzzlewit disappointments & Christmas Carol’; and vol. 3, chapter 15: ‘America...
291 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, between Monday, 4 and Saturday, 9 December 1882.
in translation:
...and painter — I saw a winter night with a Christmas sentiment by him that now comes to mind. Then...
293 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Monday, 11 December 1882.
in note 1:
...Christmas number of The Graphic of 1882. This prospectus gives a detailed description of the production and distribution of the magazine, with illustrations of the engravers at work and views of a modern printing establishment. Van Gogh’s mistake about the year may have been caused by a phrase in the magazine: ‘We begin to think of Christmas 1883’ (p. 4...
in note 3:
...shortened by Van Gogh – is on p. 1. The Christmas number says: ‘actual professional artists...
294 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, between about Wednesday, 13 and about Monday, 18 December 1882.
in translation:
...and the same, namely to express the special mood of Christmas and New Year. At that time, in both...
...form but to show that I greatly respect the Christmas and New Year sentiment. And if there’s any...
295 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Friday, 22 December 1882.
in translation:
How I wish we could spend a couple of Christmas days together, for instance — I would also dearly like to have you in my studio once more...
...I hope that you’ll still be able to enjoy Christmas — still get to go for a walk and have a...
in date note:
...and must have been written a few days before Christmas, because Vincent hopes that Theo will still enjoy...
in note 2:
The special Harper’s Christmas Pictures Paper. Christmas 1882. Done by The Tile Club & its literary friends. The price of this 32-page special was 75 cents. We have consulted the copy in the Widener Library, Harvard...
in note 3:
...and the maiden, engraved by Francis Scott King, in Harper’s Christmas Pictures Paper, p. 16. Ill. 2018.
296 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Wednesday, 27 December 1882.
in note 1:
...Mr van Gogh wrote to Theo: ‘It is a better Christmas for us this year than last, with that sad...
302 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Thursday, 18 January 1883.
in note 14:
Charles Stanley Reinhart, Making home for Christmas, engraved by W. Zimmerman, in Harper’s Christmas Pictures Paper. Christmas 1882. Done by The Tile Club & its literary Friends, p. 12; also included in Harper’s Weekly 26 (2 December 1882), pp. 772-773. Ill. 1256.
303 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Saturday, 20 January 1883.
in note 5:
...so by his ‘title’ he seems to mean Christmas in a workhouse, in The Graphic 14 (25 December...
304 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Thursday, 25 January 1883.
in note 20:
For Herkomer’s Christmas in a workhouse, see letter 278, n. 13.
in note 37:
Edwin Austin Abbey, Christmas in old Virginia, engraved by Joseph Swain, in The Graphic 22 (25 December...
in note 77:
For Fildes, The empty chair, in The Graphic, Christmas number, 1870, see letter 251, n. 11.
in note 78:
Given this description, Van Gogh must mean Christmas in a workhouse, in The Graphic 14 (25 December 1876...
in note 83:
...or Mrs?, in The Graphic 4 (25 December 1871), Christmas number, p. 19. Ill. 841 (t*167). This is an...
305 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Friday, 26 or Saturday, 27 January 1883.
in translation:
...urchin &c. — come to visit a painter on Christmas Day. There’s something nice about dealing...
in note 18:
Arthur Boyd Houghton, Our artists’ Christmas entertainment – Arrival of the visitors, in The Graphic 6...
309 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Thursday, 8 February 1883.
in original text:
...niet of ik U reeds schreef over Old Christmas from Washington Irvings Sketchbook, ill. by...
in translation:
...ve already written to you about Old Christmas from Washington Irving’s Sketchbook, ill. by...
in note 15:
For Abbey’s Christmas in Old Virginia, see letter 304, n. 37.
in note 21:
...Christmas from the sketchbook of Washington Irving and Bracebridge Hall from the sketchbook of Washington Irving, illustrated by Randolph Caldecott and published by Macmillan & Co., London, both appeared in 1882 with the subtitle From Washington Irving’s sketchbook. (In letter 316 Van Gogh says he has bought a ‘new’ edition, by which he must mean this sixpenny edition.) These books by Washington Irving have only 36 and 48 pages. The title pages state ‘one hundred and twenty illustrations’ and ‘upwards of one hundred illustrations’ respectively, which were engraved by James Davis Cooper. See Bracebridge Hall. Ed. London 1887, p. 96 (Ill. 2059) and Old Christmas. Ed. London 1886, p. 67 (Ill. 2060). Macmillan exploited these works by issuing various, often cheap, editions (see those in The British Library in London). Cf. Rodney K. Engen, Randolph Caldecott. ‘Lord of the nursery’. London 1988, esp. pp. 7-24, 97. In Old Christmas (1819) an American meets his old travel companion Bracebridge, who invites him to his father’s country house for Christmas...
in note 28:
...bargain (1848) is the last of Dickens’s Christmas books. Mr. Redlaw, a melancholy man, is lonely...
316 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Thursday, 15 February 1883.
in translation:
...costing only 1 shilling. It’s a description of Christmas in a village at the beginning of this...
in note 13:
For Old Christmas from the sketchbook of Washington Irving and Bracebridge Hall from the sketchbook of...
317 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Tuesday, 20 February 1883.
in note 14:
...This is a reprint of the illustration in the Christmas issue of The Graphic 4 (25 December 1871), p. 10...
325 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Monday, 5 March 1883.
in original text:
...deze week een nieuwe 6 penny uitgaaf van Christmas carol en Haunted man van Dickens (London Chapman...
in translation:
...week I bought a new 6-penny edition of Christmas carol and Haunted man by Dickens (London Chapman...
in note 37:
...Christmas carol and The haunted man were published by Chapman and Hall of London in one volume for sixpence, with illustrations by John Leech, Clarkson Stanfield and Frederick Barnard. Barnard did eight illustrations in total (pp. 3, 6, 19, 21, 26, 35, 43, 53). The ‘junk shop’ refers to the illustration with the caption “What do you call this?” said Joe,“Bed curtains!”, engraved by the Dalziel Brothers. See A Christmas carol, p. 21. Ill. 530...
in note 47:
...Punch and illustrated numerous books, including A Christmas carol by Dickens. See Engen 1995, pp. 154-155.
332 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Wednesday, 21 March 1883.
in translation:
...a corridor at the offices of The Graphic at Christmas. The draughtsmen’s models come to wish them...
in note 9:
For Boyd Houghton’s Our artist’s Christmas entertainment – Arrival of the visitors, see letter 305, n...
333 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Thursday, 29 March and Sunday, 1 April 1883.
in translation:
...and Heilbuth. A large pen drawing of a Christmas party in the age of Washington or slightly...
in note 28:
For The Tile Club, see letter 295, n. 2. In the Christmas Number of Harper’s Weekly of 1882 there were...
in note 31:
Van Gogh must mean Abbey’s Christmas in Old Virginia: letter 304, n. 37.
in note 32:
...Pille, this is a reference to Howard Pyle’s Christmas morning in Old New York, which is also mentioned...
335 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Tuesday, 3 April 1883.
in note 2:
...London News; one was Uncle William’s Christmas presents in The Illustrated London News 29 (20...
346 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Friday, 25 May 1883.
in note 7:
For Howard Pyle, Christmas morning in Old New York, see letter 279, n. 8.
in note 8:
For Edwin Austin Abbey, Christmas in old Virginia, see letter 304, n. 37.
354 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Friday, 15 June 1883.
in note 3:
...the title Een kerstfeest in de zestiende eeuw (A Christmas celebration in the sixteenth century). See N. de...
359 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Tuesday, 3 July 1883.
in translation:
...stories. By Birket Foster, Winter landscapes, Christmas time, very cosy, two important Gavarnis of...
in note 30:
John Everett Millais, Christmas story-telling, engraved by Thomas Bolton Dalziel, in The Illustrated London...
in note 31:
Two Christmas scenes are depicted in Myles Birket Foster, The Christmas holly cart (An urban snow scene) in The Illustrated London News, Christmas number 1848 and Christmas eve – The cottager’s return from market in The Illustrated London News 27 (22 December 1855), p. 720. Ill. 851 and Ill. 850.
391 To Theo van Gogh. Hoogeveen, Friday, 28 September 1883.
in translation:
...really would like to undertake a trip between now and Christmas. Let’s make the most of the time...
409 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Thursday, 6 December 1883.
in note 2:
Van Gogh had not been home since Christmas 1881; his parents moved to Nuenen in August 1882, so this was the...
410 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Friday, 7 December 1883.
in note 1:
After a disagreement with his father, Van Gogh left his parents’ home at Christmas 1881: see letter 194.
416 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Friday, 21 December 1883.
in date note:
...this and assuming that he was back in Nuenen on Christmas Day (cf. letter 417), we have dated the letter...
431 To Anthon van Rappard. Nuenen, Tuesday, 26 February 1884.
in note 5:
...upon the sea, engraved by Charles Roberts, in the Christmas issue of The Graphic 1883, p. 30. Ill. 1255.
462 To Anthon van Rappard. Nuenen, between about Wednesday, 24 and about Monday, 29 September 1884.
in translation:
...come at the beginning of the winter until Christmas time, say, I immediately said something myself...
743 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Monday, 28 January 1889.
in note 20:
...liturgy. In the nineteenth century they combined Christmas traditions, hymns and stereotypes patterned after...
753 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Friday, 29 March 1889.
in note 3:
Charles Dickens’s Christmas books (1843-1845) contained five Christmas stories: ‘A Christmas carol’, ‘The chimes’, ‘The cricket on the hearth’, ‘The battle of life’ and ‘The haunted man’. The book was published in French as Contes de Noël. Traduits de l’anglais avec l’autorisation de l’auteur...
764 To Willemien van Gogh. Arles, between about Sunday, 28 April and Thursday, 2 May 1889.
in original text:
...enfants, et puis aussi avec attention extrême les Christmas Tales de Ch. Dickens. Je lis peu pour...
in translation:
...and 8 beds of flowers, forget-me-nots, Christmas roses, anemones, buttercups, wallflowers, daisies...
...and then also with extreme attention C. Dickens’s Christmas Tales. I read little so as to think...
800 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Thursday, 5 and Friday, 6 September 1889.
in translation:
...very hard, and then if the crisis returns towards Christmas we’ll see, and once that’s over...
831 To Anna van Gogh-Carbentus. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Monday, 23 December 1889.
in translation:
...than last year. Now I wish you a happy Christmas and a good New Year. Embraced in thought by Your...
in date note:
...letter Vincent also wished his mother a happy Christmas (l. 126), which makes it likely the letter was...
833 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Tuesday, 31 December 1889 or Wednesday, 1 January 1890.
in note 2:
...of last year made him extremely anxious on Christmas Day’ (FR b4299). Theo’s letters 835 and 838...
842 To Joseph Ginoux and Marie Ginoux-Julien. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Monday, 20 January 1890.
in translation:
...now it has been so again since – just around Christmas – for a few days I was again taken quite badly...
845 Jo van Gogh-Bonger to Vincent van Gogh. Paris, Wednesday, 29 January 1890.
in translation:
...been meaning to write to you day after day since Christmas — there’s even a half-finished letter to you...

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1 essay item found

Biographical & historical context / The family and children of the Reverend and Mrs Van Gogh
...tried to be at home for Easter and Christmas and during the holidays. The letters written shortly...

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Chronology
in 1872:
...1a) Mid-August - mid-October *Visits the Salon in Brussels (4). December Spends Christmas in Helvoirt (3).
in 1874:
...Paris, 9 rue Chaptal (FR b2728). End of December Spends Christmas in Helvoirt, as does Theo (89, FR b2737).
in 1875:
...4 (FR b2366). 24 December-3 January Spends Christmas and New Year in Etten. Theo is also there (62, FR...
in 1876:
...He and Anna travel back to Etten together from England. Theo is also there for Christmas (FR b2802-b2804).
in 1877:
...Amsterdam (FR b2562). End of December-7 January Vincent is in Etten. Theo is also there for Christmas (138).
in 1889:
...escort in the daytime (753). #Reads Dickens’s Christmas books, and re-reads Beecher Stowe’s Uncle...
Documentation
...mother.” Then there follows a discription of Christmas and New-year and then still the following phrase...

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89 letters, 1 essay item and 2 other items found

89 letters found

1 essay item found

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Vincent van Gogh, The Letters