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RM17 Envelope addressed to Theo van Gogh. After Sunday, 21 April 1889.

metadata
No. RM17 (Brieven 1990 -, Complete Letters )
From: Vincent van Gogh
To: Theo van Gogh
Date: unknown, after Sunday, 21 April 1889

Source status
Original manuscript

Location
Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, inv. no. b7190 V/1962

Additional
It is unclear which letter this envelope contained – it was most likely enclosed with a shipment or entrusted to someone to deliver, considering it has no stamp.
The envelope must date from after Sunday, 21 April 1889, the day Theo and Jo took up residence at this address.

original text
 1r:1
Monsieur Th . van Gogh
8 Cité Pigalle
Paris
translation
 1r:1
Monsieur Th. van Gogh
8 cité Pigalle
Paris