After wandering along the coast, I’ve settled in Cassis.1 I’m sending you my address so that you can give me good news about yourself. I’ve written to your brother, he hasn’t replied to me yet.2
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From: Paul Signac
To: Vincent van Gogh
Date: Cassis, Monday, 8 April 1889 more...
Source status:
Original manuscript
Location:
Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, inv. no. b1324 V/1962
Date:
Postmarked Cassis: ‘8 avril 89’.
Additional:
Ten-centime postcard. Postmarked on the side of the address: ‘CASSIS BOUCHES-DU-RHONE 2E | 8 AVRIL 89’, and on the side of the text: ‘ARLES BOUCHES DU RHONE 1E | 10 AVRIL 89’. The address reads: ‘[M]onsieur Vincent Van Gogh/ à l’Hotel Dieu/ Arles’.
1. On his way from Paris to the South, Signac had visited Van Gogh on 23 and 24 March (see letter 752). Cassis is south-east of Marseille, on the Mediterranean Sea.