[Letterhead: Goupil Paris]

Paris, 6 July 1875

My dear Theo,

Thanks for writing, yes, old boy, I thought so. You must write and tell me sometime how your English is, have you done anything about it? If not, it’s not such a great disaster.

I’ve rented a small room in Montmartre which you’d like; it’s small, but overlooks a little garden full of ivy and Virginia creeper.1

I want to tell you which prints I have on the wall.

Ruisdael		The bush2
ditto		Bleaching fields3
Rembrandt		Reading the Bible (a large, old Dutch room, (in the evening, a candle on the table) in which a young mother sits beside her child’s cradle reading the Bible; an old woman listens,4 it’s something that recalls: Verily I say unto you,5 ‘for where 2 or 3 are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them’,6 it’s an old copper engraving, as large as ‘The bush’, superb).
P. de Champaigne		Portrait of a lady7

Corot		Evening8
ditto		ditto9
Bodmer		Fontainebleau10
Bonington		A road11
Troyon		Morning12
Jules Dupré		Evening (resting place)13
Maris		Washerwoman14
ditto		A baptism15
Millet		The four times of the day
		(woodcuts, 4 prints)16
Van der Maaten		Funeral in the cornfield17
Daubigny		Dawn (cock crowing)18
Charlet		Hospitality. Farmhouse surrounded by fir trees, winter scene with snow. A peasant and a soldier before a door.19
Ed. Frère		Seamstresses20
ditto		A cooper21

Well, old boy, keep well, you know it, longsuffering and meek,22 as much as possible. Let us remain good friends.

Adieu

Vincent