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004 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Tuesday, 28 January 1873.
in translation:
I expect a letter from Anna soon. She’s rather lazy about writing these days. You ought to surprise...
in note 10:
Anna Cornelia van Gogh, Van Gogh’s eldest sister, was attending boarding school in Leeuwarden in th...
005 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Monday, 17 March 1873.
in translation:
I heard from Anna that you had your portrait taken. If you can spare another, I commend myself.
in note 5:
...t this refers to. Theo had sent the portrait to Anna, via his parents, shortly before 19 February (FR...
011 To Theo van Gogh. London, Sunday, 20 July 1873.
in translation:
You’ll surely have heard that Anna is at home and not well. It’s a bad start to her holiday, but ...
in note 11:
On Friday, 11 July, Anna had arrived, ill, in Helvoirt; she had a fever and a severe headache (FR b26...
014 To Willem and Caroline van Stockum-Haanebeek. London, between about Thursday, 16 October and Friday, 31 October 1873.
in translation:
Our Anna has passed her examinations in English and in needlework, you can imagine how delighted she ...
in note 1:
Anna had passed her exam in English around 3 October (FR b2666), and her exam in needlework shortly b...
019 To Theo van Gogh. London, Friday, 20 February 1874.
in note 9:
On 24 February 1874 Anna, in Leeuwarden, wrote a letter to Theo in which she told of a letter she had...
020 To Caroline and Willem van Stockum-Haanebeek. London, Tuesday, 3 March 1874.
in translation:
Now I have a piece of news for you; our Anna will perhaps be coming here. You can imagine how wonderf...
in note 3:
Van Gogh’s sister Anna was planning, after studying French, to go to England to work (FR b2689).
021 To Theo van Gogh. London, Monday, 30 March 1874.
in translation:
As regards Anna, I haven’t heard anything more.
024 To Betsy Tersteeg. Helvoirt, Tuesday, 7 July 1874.
in translation:
...onday I’m going back to London with my sister Anna, to the house I’ve drawn for you, and then I�...
in note 2:
...in connection with the departure of Vincent and Anna for London (FR b2709 and b2710). Van Gogh’s fa...
026 To Theo van Gogh. London, Tuesday, 21 July 1874.
in translation:
Anna and I arrived in London safe and sound, and will manage here somehow.
in note 4:
Vincent and Anna arrived in London on Wednesday, 15 July. Theo had been informed immediately, his par...
in note 2:
...a photograph after Matthijs Maris’s Margaret. Anna, in fact, wrote about it to Theo on 30 July 1874...
027 To Theo van Gogh. London, Friday, 31 July 1874.
in translation:
Anna is managing well, we go on wonderful walks together. It’s so beautiful here, if only one has a...
Anna and I look at the newspaper faithfully every day and answer the advertisements if there are any....
I wish you well; write to us again soon. Anna takes quite some pleasure in paintings, and has rather ...
...gine how wonderful it is for me to be here with Anna. Tell Mr T. that the paintings arrived in good o...
in note 14:
During a Bank Holiday, Vincent and Anna went together to Dulwich, where the famous Picture Gallery is...
in note 7:
...��s letter to Theo in response to a letter from Anna and Vincent: ‘they haven’t yet succeeded in ...
028 To Theo van Gogh. London, Monday, 10 August 1874.
in translation:
Anna and I take a walk every evening; it’s already the beginning of autumn, and that makes nature e...
in note 11:
Van Gogh and his sister Anna moved to the home of John and Mrs Parker, Ivy Cottage, 395 Kennington Ro...
033 To Theo van Gogh. London, Saturday, 8 May 1875.
in translation:
You ask about Anna, but we’ll discuss that another time.
in note 4:
...874 and that there was friction between him and Anna. His mood was sombre, his behaviour was consider...
039 To Theo van Gogh. Paris, Saturday, 24 July 1875.
in translation:
I hear that Anna and Lies are at home; I’d like to see them again. I wish you the very best, and wr...
040 To Theo van Gogh. Paris, Friday, 13 August 1875.
in note 23:
This remark probably alludes to Anna’s new prospects, since Mr and Mrs van Gogh had decided that sh...
in translation:
...hink it good that Willemien is going along with Anna. I’d also have liked to be with all of you tha...
... my regards to the Van Stockums, Haanebeeks, Aunt Fie, Rooses, &c. What do you think about our Anna?
in note 3:
... Theo had gone to visit his father at Helvoirt; Anna, Lies, Willemien and Cor were also there (FR b23...
in note 2:
...he time being she would spend three months with Anna at Welwyn (Hertfordshire), a village north of Lo...
054 To Theo van Gogh. Paris, Wednesday, 6 October 1875.
in translation:
...oday I had the opportunity to send a package to Anna and Willemien. Among other things I sent her L�...
I also sent Anna several prints – including Rembrandt, Reading the Bible and The supper at Emmaus (...
...o much that things will continue to go well for Anna there. She keeps up her courage, I know so well ...
056 To Theo van Gogh. Paris, Thursday, 14 October 1875.
in translation:
I’ve had rather a good letter from Anna, I’m sending it to you to read, but send it back. Pa once...
057 To Theo van Gogh. Paris, Tuesday, 9 November 1875.
in translation:
Anna seems to get up early as well. She doesn’t have it easy, and she certainly makes herself very ...
059 To Theo van Gogh. Paris, Saturday, 4 December 1875.
in translation:
... a great deal to talk about. It’s a pity that Anna can’t come either; I so much hope that she’l...
060 To Theo van Gogh. Paris, Thursday, 9 December 1875.
in translation:
I received a letter from Anna today. I believe she’s reconciled to celebrating Christmas there, wit...
063 Willemien van Gogh to Vincent and Theo van Gogh. Welwyn, Sunday, 19 December 1875.
in note 1:
Willemien was staying with Anna.
064 Anna van Gogh to Vincent van Gogh. Welwyn, Thursday, 30 December 1875.
in translation:
Anna.
in note 1:
...is not identified more specifically, was probably a girl living in the same house as Anna in Welwyn.
074 Anna van Gogh-Carbentus, Vincent van Gogh and Theodorus van Gogh to Theo van Gogh. Etten, Tuesday, 4 April 1876.
in translation:
Good letters from the girls as well – Lies also speaks of you with so much warmth.
in note 16:
Anna and Willemien, both of whom lived in Welwyn.
076 To Theodorus van Gogh and Anna van Gogh-Carbentus. Ramsgate, Monday, 17 April 1876.
in translation:
...how much we think of the others, of Theo, and of Anna and the other sisters and of little brother.
How much I thought of Anna on the boat; everything there reminded me of our journey together.
078 To Theo van Gogh. Ramsgate, Friday, 21 April 1876.
in translation:
...good as to place the enclosed advertisement for Anna for that amount in some newspaper or other, you ...
I hope so much that Anna will find something; Willemien will be going home soon now.
...ten there on the wall, which you’ll find in Anna’s letter (enclosed for you to read, but send it ...
in note 3:
Willemien had been staying with Anna at Welwyn since mid-August 1875; on 13 May 1876 she travelled ba...
in note 2:
Anna, who lived and worked in Welwyn, was looking for a new situation (FR b954, b2765 and b2769). See...
079 To Theo van Gogh. Ramsgate, Friday, 28 April 1876.
in translation:
You’ll have received that letter containing Anna’s advertisement in good order. There’s also an...
I’ll be glad when Anna has found something, but situations like the ones she is looking for are rat...
081 To Theo van Gogh. Ramsgate, Saturday, 6 May 1876.
in translation:
...gue and Scheveningen as well. Did you know that Anna has received an answer to her advertisemen...
in note 3:
These letters did not result in work for Anna; on or about 11 May 1876, she wrote to her parents: ‘...
082 To Theo van Gogh. Ramsgate, Friday, 12 May 1876.
in note 6:
...aux, Musée Goupil). Ill. 1768. Two years later Anna received the print as a wedding present: ‘We g...
083 To Theo van Gogh. Ramsgate, Wednesday, 31 May 1876.
in note 1:
...llemien, Lies and Theo were in Etten on 21 May; Anna and Vincent, who were both living in England, co...
084 To Theo van Gogh. Welwyn, Saturday, 17 June 1876.
in translation:
...inutes). In the afternoon at 5, I was with our sister and was very glad to see her. She looks well an...
in note 1:
...s written when Van Gogh was visiting his sister Anna. On the same day Anna sent a short note to Theo,...
087 To Theo van Gogh. Isleworth, Wednesday, 2 August 1876.
in translation:
...ome that you’d be coming home for a day while Anna and Lies were still there; write and tell me if ...
089 To Theo van Gogh. Isleworth, Saturday, 26 August 1876.
in translation:
Anna should be back in Welwyn by now, when she leaves Welwyn she’ll feel how much she loved it. You...
in note 37:
Anna had left on Friday, 25 August and therefore could not have arrived in Welwyn before Saturday, 26...
094 To Anna van Gogh-Carbentus and Theo van Gogh. Isleworth, Friday, 13 October 1876.
in translation:
...weeks around Christmas to go to Holland, should Anna be able to come as well we could perhaps travel ...
095 To Theo van Gogh. Isleworth, between Monday, 23 and on or about Wednesday, 25 October 1876.
in note 29:
Anna must have described her impressions to Vincent in much the same way as she wrote about them to T...
in translation:
Herewith Anna’s last letter, she’ll probably think of Welwyn often once she has left it, everythi...
...s are now the colour of bronze. That haze which Anna writes about lay over the grass, and a brook run...
097 To Theo van Gogh. Isleworth, Friday, 10 November 1876.
in translation:
...he ivy in the snow. How I’d like to come with Anna, may she find something soon, I’ll write to he...
in note 9:
Anna, who was looking for a new situation in the Netherlands (cf. letter 78), wrote to Theo on 4 Octo...
100 To Theo van Gogh. Etten, Sunday, 31 December 1876.
in translation:
...a happy New Year. I’m writing in great haste, Anna and the girls and Cor went to Princenhage, and P...
107 To Cornelis Marinus van Gogh. Dordrecht, Thursday, 8 March 1877.
in translation:
It’s wonderful that Anna has found another situation straightaway; I only hope it will be to her li...
in note 4:
Anna was to become a companion to the Van Houten family in Hengelo in the province of Overijssel in t...
110 To Theo van Gogh. Etten, Sunday, 8 April 1877.
in translation:
Today a postcard from Anna to say she arrived safely, may things go well for her. Haven’t you also ...
in note 6:
In Welwyn, Anna had lived with Mrs Catherine Stothard, her employer’s sister; Catherine’s son Ern...
in note 3:
After some delay, Anna entered the service of the Van Houten family in Hengelo as a governess (cf. le...
114 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Saturday, 19 May 1877.
in note 42:
...t about’ (FR b959, 7 May 1877). A letter from Anna to Theo confirms that the meeting did indeed tak...
116 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Monday, 28 May 1877.
in translation:
... from home yesterday, wrote back today, also to Anna. You must also write again soon, for I’m longi...
121 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Monday, 9 July 1877.
in translation:
Well, what do you say about Anna? It surprised me, and it seems to be serious too, and will certainly...
...ive her good things in life. On this occasion I congratulate you, too, as I have Anna and Pa and Ma.
in note 1:
Vincent’s sister Anna had received a proposal of marriage from Joan Marius van Houten, the son of t...
122 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Sunday, 15 July 1877.
in translation:
Ma wrote in her last letter something about ‘Anna’s house’, which is a new expression that does...
123 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Friday, 27 July 1877.
in translation:
...to work, though I still have to fill this page. Anna is in Leiden, as you surely know, and will come ...
124 To Hermanus Gijsbertus Tersteeg. Amsterdam, Friday, 3 August 1877.
in translation:
..., with something of the faith of old. My sister Anna is coming to Amsterdam today with my future brot...
125 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Friday, 3 August 1877.
in translation:
Yesterday a letter from Anna, who arrives today at 12:45 with Van Houten, am very much looking forwar...
126 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Sunday, 5 August 1877.
in translation:
...s of some use, and it was a real comfort to me. Anna left again yesterday for Hengelo, they had a lot...
in note 1:
Anna was a lady companion in Hengelo; see letter 107, n. 4.
128 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Monday, 27 August 1877.
in translation:
... thinking of what you were doing. Pa wrote that Anna had written a good letter home, she was busy bec...
Just had a good letter from Anna. Her letters are quite rare, so I’m sending you this one to read.
in note 17:
Anna would marry one year later, on 22 August 1878.
129 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Tuesday, 4 September 1877.
in translation:
Herewith a note for Anna and for Lies, do write something on it and send it when Ma’s birthday is a...
136 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Monday, 3 and Tuesday, 4 December 1877.
in note 38:
...e book Hermann und Dorothea by J.W. von Goethe. Anna received ‘a couple of testaments’ (prayer bo...
140 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Sunday, 10 February 1878.
in note 21:
Anna would turn 23 on 17 February.
in translation:
...en and gone, it will have been a good day, with Anna there too, I’m longing for a letter from home ...
... very best, write soon, also congratulations on Anna’s birthday, even though it’s still to come, ...
in note 10:
Anna, who by now had been staying for some time with the Van Houten family in Hengelo, was ill and un...
141 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Monday, 18 and Tuesday, 19 February 1878.
in note 25:
Anna was to marry Joan van Houten in August.
in translation:
It was Anna’s birthday, and it was also a good day for me. Got up quite early and went in the morni...
...urney agreed with Pa. I’m longing to hear how Anna’s birthday was, in all likelihood she’ll cel...
145 To Theo van Gogh. Etten, Monday, 22 July 1878.
in note 20:
Anna had been ill for some time; she was listless and suffered from stomach pains. Joan van Houten ha...
in translation:
Anna is but poorly, she’s so quiet and sometimes looks so very weak — poor sister — it seems to...
146 To Theo van Gogh. Etten, Monday, 5 August 1878.
in translation:
...or that matter — I’ll stay here until after Anna’s wedding and then leave for there as soon as ...
...he banns. Joan is coming tomorrow evening. Our sister, though, is still far from being as one would l...
...is summer with Uncle, may that happen, for once Anna is married things will be quiet again here at ho...
in note 7:
On Wednesday, 7 August, Anna and Joan van Houten were to register their banns. Vincent was planning t...
in note 2:
Anna van Gogh and Joan van Houten were to be married on 22 August 1878.
147 To Theo van Gogh. Etten, Thursday, 15 August 1878.
in translation:
...ely, with strong winds too. It was nice the day Anna and Joan registered their banns. Now that Joan i...
in note 3:
Anna and Joan were married on 22 August 1878; Vincent originally planned to leave for Brussels on the...
in note 2:
Although Anna was cheered by the situation, her relations with Vincent did not improve. She wrote to ...
154 To Theo van Gogh. Cuesmes, between about Monday, 11 and Thursday, 14 August 1879.
in translation:
...entice — likewise that of my very dear sister Anna to devote myself to the baker’s trade or many ...
163 To Theodorus van Gogh and Anna van Gogh-Carbentus. Brussels, on or about Wednesday, 16 February 1881.
in translation:
...ter sending my regards to everyone and after congratulating you on Anna’s birthday, and believe me
in note 13:
Anna turned 26 on 17 February.
239 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Thursday, 22 June 1882.
in note 7:
... left I secretly gave him a piece of paper from Anna with some ox-tongue, but not a lot, to which I a...
451 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Wednesday, 2 July 1884.
in note 9:
Willemien was on holiday with her sister Anna and Joan van Houten and their family in a boarding hous...
464 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Thursday, 2 October 1884.
in note 1:
... and this agitated her greatly and she wrote to Anna about it so that she could tell you. Still it tu...
490 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Monday, 6 April 1885.
in translation:
...ver, I still very much regret the incident with Anna that decided me in this respect. What she said t...
As to Anna — you mustn’t think that I’ll continue to take something like that amiss or hold a g...
in note 10:
...Nuenen on 30 March 1886 and went to Breda first. Her daughter Anna lived in Leiderdorp, near Leiden.
in note 9:
...er friend Line Kruysse about this incident with Anna: ‘[Vincent’s] disappointments often embitter...
501 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Wednesday, 6 May 1885.
in note 5:
Their sister Anna’s objections were the reason for Vincent’s move out of the parental home. See l...
540 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Wednesday, 11 November 1885.
in translation:
...what I’m telling you. If Ma goes on a trip to Anna, to Amsterdam, to Cor before long — it seems t...
in note 2:
...ogh wanted to go via Leiden (where her daughter Anna lived), to Amsterdam, where she and her daughter...
548 To Theo van Gogh. Antwerp, on or about Thursday, 17 December 1885.
in translation:
...at home while they’re with my charming sister Anna and other members of my family who are also so c...
in note 8:
...emien were evidently staying in Leiderdorp with Anna and Joan van Houten-Van Gogh and their two daugh...
749 Theo van Gogh to Vincent van Gogh. Paris, Saturday, 16 March 1889.
in note 1:
...in-law Joan van Houten and his sister Anna van Houten-Van Gogh: ‘Thank you very much for your lette...
767 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Thursday, 2 May 1889.
in note 5:
...incent is referring to Willemien and Elisabeth; Anna, the eldest of the three sisters, was already ma...
798 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Monday, 2 September 1889.
in note 11:
... Herengracht 100 in Leiden. Van Gogh’s sister Anna, her husband Joan van Houten and their daughters...
811 To Anna van Gogh-Carbentus. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Monday, 21 October 1889.
in translation:
... do with them as you wish, and give the other sisters a couple of them if you like, that’s why I�...
826 To Anna van Gogh-Carbentus. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Monday, 9 or Tuesday, 10 December 1889.
in note 1:
...ertina van Gogh. Baarn 1969. Vincent’s sister Anna and her husband, Joan van Houten, had two daught...
831 To Anna van Gogh-Carbentus. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Monday, 23 December 1889.
in translation:
...om Cor? It’s very good that you’re close to Anna and will see your grandchildren around you. Give...
in note 7:
Vincent’s sister Anna and her husband, Joan van Houten, had two daughters, Sara and Annie.
856 To Willemien van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Wednesday, 19 February 1890.
in translation:
...s you affectionately in thought. If our other sisters would also like to have canvases you can ask T...
863 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Tuesday, 29 April 1890.
in note 4:
Only Vincent’s elder sister Anna received at some point a copy after Millet: Woman spinning (after ...
864 To Anna van Gogh-Carbentus and Willemien van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Tuesday, 29 April 1890.
in translation:
...y hope that all is well with you both, and with Anna and Lies too. I wrote to Theo today and sent him...
899 To Anna van Gogh-Carbentus and Willemien van Gogh. Auvers-sur-Oise, between about Thursday, 10 and Monday, 14 July 1890.
in translation:
How big Anna’s children must be by now.
in note 2:
Vincent’s sister Anna had two children: Sara, who was 10 years old at this time, and Annie, who was...

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6 essay items found

Correspondents / Family members
in correspondents_2:
...rked at home with us; after my father’s death Anna thought it would be more peaceful for Ma if he w...
... he was young Van Gogh spent a lot of time with Anna, who was two years younger than him. Not one of ...
... back of a drawing might have been addressed to Anna; see RM1. The poem RM12 could also have been int...
See Documentation, letters from Anna van Gogh to Theo van Gogh, 6 January 1874 and 24 February 1874 (...
Later in 1874 Anna lived with Vincent in London for several months, but it was not entirely a success...
Letter from Anna van Gogh to Theo van Gogh, 28 April 1875 (FR b2333).
Letter from Anna van Gogh to Theo van Gogh, 13 August 1878 (FR b989).
Publication history / De brieven 1990: a large edition for a small readership
in publications_6:
Anna to Vincent (letter 64);
Correspondents / Preservation of the letters
in correspondents_4:
...ned letters he received. The letters from Theo, Anna and Willemien and the one from Van Rappard are t...
Biographical & historical context / The immediate family circle
in context_4:
Anna Cornelia van Gogh (1855-1930) went to boarding school in Leeuwarden, and lived in England from 1...
...1862-1941) travelled to England with her sister Anna at the age of thirteen, and remained there for n...
Biographical & historical context / The family and children of the Reverend and Mrs Van Gogh
in context_1:
...incent. The other five children, in order, were Anna, Theo, Elisabeth, Willemien and Cor. It must hav...
...e charity. During the time when their daughters Anna and Lies were away at boarding school in Leeuwar...
... a certain point.See The financial backgrounds. Anna married quite soon after finishing school, Lies ...
...r the young Vincent’s literary preferences see Pabst 1988, and for Anna’s poetry album FR b4415.
...m any pleasure’ (FR b2267). It was his sister Anna who thought that life would be more peaceful for...
...an chase after a high position’ (letter 348). Anna was aware of class distinctions at an early age,...
...r life so as to be close to her eldest daughter Anna and her grandchildren, and from there she contin...
Biographical & historical context / The letter-writing culture and Van Gogh’s position within it
in context_2:
...o Theo: ‘I’ve had rather a good letter from Anna, I’m sending it to you to read, but send it ba...
...rs, bits of seaweed or knitted socks. ‘It’s Anna’s birthday on 17 February. We’re writing to ...

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3 other items found

Documentation
in documentation:
Letter from Anna van Gogh to Theo van Gogh, written in English. Leeuwarden, Tues...
... we hope for the best. Good news from Anna and Jo. And their little Sara, they ...
...earer of good news, Jo and Anna also wanted to write. Oh Theo, must the year end...
Overview of all the letters
in overview:
from Anna van Gogh, sister
... RM12) may have been intended for Vincent’s sister Anna.
Chronology
in 1885:
...e family home after an argument with his sister Anna and goes to live in the studio he rents from Sch...
in 1876:
12-17 June Walks to London, where he stays for two days before visiting Anna in Welwyn (84).
20 December He and Anna travel back to Etten together from England. Theo is also there for Christmas...
in 1874:
... The Hague (23, 25, FR b2709-b2710). His sister Anna travels back to London with him and also lodges ...
Shortly after 10 August He and Anna go to live with John Parker and his family at 395 Kennington Roa...
24 August Anna moves to Welwyn to take up a position as a teacher (FR b2715).
in 1855:
17 February His sister Anna is born.

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72 letters, 6 essay items and 3 other items found

72 letters found

6 essay items found

3 other items found

Vincent van Gogh, The Letters