791 Henriette Lamblot-Gaudin to Vincent van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 16 July 1889.

metadata

No. 791 (Brieven 1990 -, Complete Letters -)
From: Henriette Lamblot-Gardin
To: Vincent van Gogh
Date: Arles, Tuesday, 16 July 1889

Source status

Original manuscript

Location

Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, inv. no. b3154 V/1966

Date

Letter headed: ‘Arles, le 16 juillet 1889’.

Additional

The 10-centimes postcard has on the side with the message the postmark: ‘ST REMY DE PROVCE 17 / JUIL / 89’, and on the side bearing the address (twice): ‘ARLES BOUCHES DU RHONE 5e|16 / JUIL / [89]’. The address reads: ‘[M]r Vincent, chez Mr le docteur/ Peyron, à/ St Remy/ B du R’.

Jansen 1998.

original text

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Arles, le 16 juillet 1889

Monsieur,

J’ai demandé à Paris le livre que vous m’avez commandé1 et on m’a répondu qu’ils étaient épuisés. Si vous voulez un autre volume; veuillez m’en donner le titre; et je vous l’expédierai aussitôt; si non je vous rembourserai votre argent à votre prochaine visite chez moi. Recevez, Monsieur, mes salutations.

H. Lamblot

successeur A. Jauffret2

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translation

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Arles, 16 July 1889.

Sir,

I have made enquiries in Paris about the book you ordered from me1 and they replied that it was out of print. If you want another volume, please give me the title, and I shall send it to you forthwith; if not, I shall return your money on your next visit to me. Yours faithfully,

H. Lamblot

successor to A. Jauffret.2

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notes

1. On Sunday, 7 July 1889 Van Gogh undertook a supervised journey to Arles (see letters 787 and 789). It is not known which book he ordered.

2. The bookshop owned by Anaïs Jauffret, 12 rue de la Poissonnerie, was taken over in 1889 by Marie Henriette Pauline Lamblot-Gaudin.