1r:1
[Letterhead: Goupil Paris]
Paris, 19 June 1875
My dear Theo,
I had hoped to see her again before she died,
1 and that didn’t happen. Man proposes and God disposes.
2In the first crate we send to Holland you’ll find a photo of that painting by
P. de Champaigne,
3 of which
Michelet said, ‘she stayed with me for 30 years, coming back to me incessantly’,
4 also an etching by
Daubigny after
Ruisdael’s ‘Bush’,
5 a lithograph after
Corot’s ‘Sunset’,
6 a lithograph by
Bodmer, ‘Fontainebleau in the autumn’
7 and two
Jacque etchings.
8Adieu
Vincent
I don’t know how long I’ll be staying here, but before I return to London I hope to go to Helvoirt.
9 I hope you’ll be there too. I’ll pay for the journey.
1r:2 You certainly won’t forget her and her death, but keep it to yourself. This is one of those things that, little by little, makes us ‘sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing’;
10 and that we must become.