Have you been working in the country lately and is the house you are building getting on?

It appears that Claude Monet has done fine things, my brothers writes to say that he has at present an exhibition of 10 new pictures. One representing pinetrees by the seaside with a red sunset casting a red glow over stems, branches, foliage and the ground itself — a marvel I hear.1

Bernard is doing good things I believe and taking a lot of trouble.

Gauguin is still at Pont-Aven and suffering of his liver complaint but working nevertheless