search results

41 letters found

227 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 14 or Monday, 15 May 1882.
in note 5:
...s, who lived for six months. Her fourth child, Willem, was born on 2 July 1882. It is not known who t...
231 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Saturday, 27 May 1882.
in translation:
...tle coffee, and Sien too. Because we’d bought linen for her baby and she’d been to Leiden &c.
242 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 2 July 1882.
in note 1:
...Hospital in Leiden registered the birth of Willem Hoornik on 2 July 1882; Sien’s occupation was giv...
in translation:
...she survived, together with a jolly nice little boy. Her mother and child and I went there together ...
But what I can’t get over is the child, in particular because although it was delivered with forcep...
243 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Tuesday, 4 July 1882.
in translation:
...f Sien when you see her, and of the new little clever-clogs. I do hope you’ll feel some sympathy f...
244 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Thursday, 6 July 1882.
in translation:
I want to show him Sien and her baby, which he won’t be expecting, as well as the house bright and ...
...A little longer in the hospital and then I’ll go back to work, and the woman and child will pose.
...u are. I think when the woman is back with her child, I fully recovered and back from the hospital, ...
245 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Thursday, 6 and Friday, 7 July 1882.
in translation:
... one has sat beside the woman one loves with a child in the cradle near her. And even if it was a ho...
...ay and night. There was no woman, there was no child. I don’t believe there was less suffering as ...
...me right and left, at work and everywhere and all the time. There was no woman, there was no child.
... we both felt our eyes getting moist as we looked at the baby we were so anxious about this winter.
...uld not live alone but with a woman and with a child, if everything is to be normal. And what I hope...
...he was allowed to get up for half an hour for the first time, and that the baby is also doing well.
246 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Saturday, 15 and Sunday, 16 July 1882.
in translation:
...o far everything is fine, both with her and the baby. Fortunately, she has good milk, the baby is qui...
... I’ll be able to resume posing the woman and child at home. My weakness is a disappointment, but t...
... tell you that we, namely the woman and the two children and I, spent the night in the big attic.
...don’t find the company of the woman and the children odd, but feel precisely as if I’m more in my...
...akes her light-hearted is medicine for her. The baby, too, is far from out of danger — you know how...
247 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Tuesday, 18 July 1882.
in translation:
...me here this morning — and saw Sien and the children. I would have wished that he could at least ha...
...nd that child? Where on earth did I get the idea of living with a woman, and with children as well?
... don’t want to hide it, but for Sien, for the baby, and for me too, it would be better if there wer...
...rwise I’m getting on well; the woman and the child are so sweet, so good and quiet that one can’...
248 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Wednesday, 19 July 1882.
in translation:
... is to preserve the lives of Sien and her two children. I don’t want her to sink back into that ter...
251 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Wednesday, 26 July 1882.
in translation:
...o so, at least for some time yet. Sien and the child are also well; they’re getting stronger and I...
301 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Saturday, 13 January 1883.
in translation:
The woman and the children are with me at the moment. There’s a big difference when I think back to...
...if the mother had had a miscarriage, or if the child had withered and wasted away for lack of mother...
307 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Sunday, 4 February 1883.
in translation:
... on 1 July. That night she had given birth to a boy who lay sleeping in his cradle beside her with h...
...end Rappard, I live with a poor woman and two children, and there are so many who will have no dealin...
309 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Thursday, 8 February 1883.
in translation:
...s a result of taking in the woman and her two children I experienced some unpleasantness, rather nast...
... believe you’d be very taken with the little child — those who abandon a woman when she’s preg...
312 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 11 February 1883.
in translation:
...ome another bond between us, but now with the children, you understand, she’s got enough on her min...
313 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Monday, 12 February 1883.
in note 1:
Sien had given birth to a son on 2 July 1882; see letter 242.
in translation:
...difficult delivery, she was terribly weak but still safe at first, and the child alive and peaceful.
And in reaction the child ill as well and looking wizened. In the child’s case it was jaundice, acc...
...r, and I showed I was very displeased that the child was ill and said that it was her fault, and I a...
...y, and soon afterwards I collected her and the child from the hospital. The child continued ailing f...
322 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Friday, 2 March 1883.
in translation:
...t this with the orphan man, the woman and the children — I’m getting splendid things. There’s n...
326 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Tuesday, 6 March 1883.
in note 5:
...he works enclosed. The other drawings of the baby Willem in natural chalk have not been identified.
in translation:
...me croquis done with it, I used it to draw our infant in various poses. Well, I discovered that it’...
339 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Wednesday, 2 or Thursday, 3 May 1883.
in note 3:
...�s disapproving attitude towards Sien and her children during a visit in July 1882 (he also wrote abo...
341 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Wednesday, 9 May 1883.
in translation:
...so because I’ve taken the woman and her two children into my house, and they think they can’t dec...
342 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Thursday, 10 May 1883.
in translation:
The boy, above all, is doing extremely well, though — the girl was very ill in the past and neglect...
But the little lad is a miracle of high spirits, already appears inclined to oppose social institutio...
349 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 3 June 1883.
in translation:
...y has a very good side in that both woman and children learn to be thrifty and the man learns to work...
358 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Monday, 2 July 1883.
in note 15:
Sien’s son Willem had been born on 2 July 1882.
in translation:
Ourlittle man is now just one year old, since 1 July, and is the most cheerful, most agreeable child ...
362 To Theo van Gogh, The Hague, on or about Friday, 13 July 1883.
in translation:
...��misconduct’, that I live with a woman and children without being married. For a time C.M. also wa...
363 To Theo van Gogh, The Hague, Sunday, 22 July 1883.
in translation:
... the outset. And the woman must breastfeed the child, and the child is strong and growing, and she�...
364 To Theo van Gogh, The Hague, Sunday, 22 July 1883.
in translation:
..., but it’s the thought of the woman and the children, those poor lambs, whom one would like to keep...
368 To Theo van Gogh, The Hague, on or about Friday, 27 July 1883.
in translation:
... it’s just like that with the woman and the children. When I’m with them and the little fellow co...
That child has very often calmed me down.
376 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 19 August 1883.
in translation:
Well, the little boy is terribly attached to me; these days he’s always at my side wherever I go in...
378 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Tuesday, 21 August 1883.
in note 10:
... the age of four – and thus Sien’s youngest son – travelled free, while in the case of the six...
in translation:
But my intention would then be to go with the woman and children.
379 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, between about Thursday, 23 and about Wednesday, 29 August 1883.
in translation:
.... On top of that she’s weak, and nursing the child has exhausted her, which in my view is a reason...
380 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 2 September 1883.
in translation:
...d follow a straighter course. Since she has 2 children, however, it’s a very difficult case, but wh...
...m — as long as you behave in a way that the children still find a Mother in you, even if you’re o...
381 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Wednesday, 5 September 1883.
in translation:
...use again, but I didn’t want to lose touch with her, because I love her and the children too much.
382 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Thursday, 6 September 1883.
in translation:
...s, a great melancholy about the woman and the children, but it couldn’t be otherwise — at the sam...
383 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Friday, 7 or Saturday, 8 September 1883.
in translation:
...that would be as bad as murdering her and her children if it weren’t that they did it in their obdu...
384 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Monday, 10 September 1883.
in translation:
...out it unless she herself cooperated. But the children to whom one’s heart goes out? I couldn’t d...
385 To Theo van Gogh. Hoogeveen, Tuesday, 11 and Wednesday, 12 September 1883.
in translation:
The woman and her children were with me until the last minute, of course, and the parting wasn’t ve...
386 To Theo van Gogh. Hoogeveen, on or about Friday, 14 September 1883.
in translation:
...with great melancholy about the woman and the children, if only they were looked after — oh, it’s...
390 To Theo van Gogh. Hoogeveen, on or about Wednesday, 26 September 1883.
in translation:
...an, moreover, the fate of my sweet, poor little lad and the other child, cut me to the quick. I’d ...
398 To Theo van Gogh. Nieuw-Amsterdam, on or about Monday, 22 October 1883.
in translation:
...’d written to her, but is worried about the children and is going out to work as a temporary help. ...
405 To Theo van Gogh. Nieuw-Amsterdam, Sunday, 11 November 1883.
in translation:
...y. Seems to regret some things from the past. Children healthy and well. My pity and affection for he...
417 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Wednesday, 26 December 1883.
in translation:
...ely as a washerwoman) to keep herself and her children, consequently has done her duty, and that in g...
...fear very much for her well-being; and the poor baby, which I cared for as if it were my own, is no l...
...is on now, alone, working for herself and her children. Yet my heart is strongly drawn to her with th...
418 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Friday, 28 December 1883.
in translation:
... an unfortunate, withered woman and her little child of support? Don’t think that you can fool you...
...woman also misses me as I was for her and her children, namely that I loved them, and still feel as m...
And as for the woman and the children, she’s attached to me, and that even after the parting, and I...

top

No essay items found

1 other item found

Chronology
in 1882:
... July Sien, her five-year-old daughter Maria and her newborn son Willem move in with him (246).

top

41 letters and 1 other item found

41 letters found

No essay items found

1 other item found

Vincent van Gogh, The Letters