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755 Paul Signac to Vincent van Gogh. Cassis, Monday, 8 April 1889.

metadata
No. 755 (Brieven 1990 759, Complete Letters 583a)
From: Paul Signac
To: Vincent van Gogh
Date: Cassis, Monday, 8 April 1889

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’.

original text
 1r:1
Mon cher ami
Après avoir erré sur la côte, je me suis fixé à Cassis.1 Je vous envoie mon adresse afin que vous me puissiez donner de vos bonnes nouvelles.– J’ai écrit à votre frère, il ne m’a point encore répondu.–2
Je vous serre bien cordialement la main.–

Votre P. Signac

2 Place de la Republique – Cassis.

 1v:2
translation
 1r:1
My dear friend,
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
I shake your hand most cordially.

Your P. Signac

2 place de la République – Cassis.
 1v:2
notes
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.
2. For Signac’s letter to Theo, see letter 752, n. 1.