16 letters found
- 066 To Theo van Gogh. Paris, on or about Monday, 17 January 1876.
- in note 11:
Hans Christian Andersen, Fairy tales, of which numerous editions were in circulation.
- in translation:
I’d like to send you a Longfellow and ‘Andersen’s fairy tales’, I’ll see if I can find them...
- 068 To Theo van Gogh. Paris, Wednesday, 2 February 1876.
- in note 1:
...ivided in the translation into ten evenings, relate events on earth as observed by the moon.Andersen
- in translation:
...t favour? You know that 15-cent edition of ‘Andersen’s vertellingen van de maan’, translated by...
- 069 To Theo van Gogh. Paris, Monday, 7 February 1876.
- in note 6:
...t letter Vincent had asked Theo for a copy of Andersen’s Vertellingen van de maan (see letter 68).
- in translation:
Thanks for the little book by Andersen, I’m glad to have it. It’s for reading aloud to a Dutchman...
Thanks again for the little book by Andersen, and in thought a handshake, and regards to everyone at ...
- 070 To Theo van Gogh. Paris, Saturday, 19 February 1876.
- in translation:
Have I already thanked you for ‘Andersen’s vertellingen’, if not, then I do so now.
- 089 To Theo van Gogh. Isleworth, Saturday, 26 August 1876.
- in note 6:
Andersen's fairy tales ‘De geschiedenis eener moeder’ (Andersen 1872, pp. 413-419), which appeare...
- in translation:
...by Jean Paul, which is enclosed herewith, and Andersen’s fairy tales, ‘The story of a mother, The...
- 094 To Anna van Gogh-Carbentus and Theo van Gogh. Isleworth, Friday, 13 October 1876.
- in note 6:
H.C. Andersen, ‘De sneeuwkoningin’, Andersen 1872, pp. 44-81, also published as ‘The snow queen...
- in translation:
...Jones’s girls a German lesson, and after the lesson I told them Andersen’s story The snow queen.
- 097 To Theo van Gogh. Isleworth, Friday, 10 November 1876.
- in note 8:
Regarding ‘The story of a mother’ by Andersen, cf. letter 89, n. 6.
- in translation:
...est boy in the school and told him several of Andersen’s fairy tales, including ‘The story of a m...
- 121 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Monday, 9 July 1877.
- in note 2:
Hans Christian Andersen, Vertellingen van de maan (What the moon saw). Van Gogh owned the edition And...
- in translation:
... of an artist in the true sense of the word, as someone like Andersen had when he says, for example:
- 127 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Saturday, 18 August 1877.
- in note 4:
A portrait of H.C. Andersen had been published in, for example, Sprookjens en verhalen van H.C. Ander...
- in translation:
...nd print shops very good portraits of Uhland, Andersen, Dickens and many others, also of clergymen su...
- 131 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Tuesday, 18 September 1877.
- in note 16:
Van Gogh’s mention of Andersen was prompted by his Vertellingen van de maan (What the moon saw) (se...
- in translation:
...ou know, and along Buitenkant, the moon was shining and everything was full of M. Maris or Andersen.
- 136 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Monday, 3 and Tuesday, 4 December 1877.
- in note 38:
...al texts or hymns), and Elisabeth received H.C. Andersen’s Vertellingen van de maan (FR b2572, b25...
- 275 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, between about Tuesday, 24 and about Friday, 27 October 1882.
- in translation:
...them. It was something out of a fairy tale by Andersen, that collection of discarded buckets, baskets...
- in note 55:
Probably an allusion to H.C. Andersen’s fairy tale ‘The old street lamp’, in which a discarded ...
- 276 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Sunday, 29 October 1882.
- in translation:
Don’t you find Andersen’s fairy tales very beautiful? — he must be another of those illustrator...
- 286 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Friday, 24 November 1882.
- in note 12:
...in the tale ‘The happy family’ by Hans Christian Andersen: ‘“There is nothing beyond it!” ...
- in translation:
...it is. I believe that in a certain fairy tale Andersen puts it in the mouth not of a person but of an...
- 291 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, between Monday, 4 and Saturday, 9 December 1882.
- in translation:
...re and the tortoise, and the ugly duckling by Andersen. Edwin Edwards the etcher, for example — why...
- 311 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Saturday, 10 February 1883.
- in translation:
...er days by Lucas. Isn’t it just like one of Andersen’s fairy tales? Oh, I find it so beautiful an...
1 essay item found
- Biographical & historical context / The family and children of the Reverend and Mrs Van Gogh
- in context_1:
...ls of George Eliot, the fairytales of Hans Christian Andersen and the religious poems of P.A. de Gé...
...s wrote to Jo Bonger: ‘I hope that you know Andersen’s fairytales. I learned them all by heart as...
1 other item found
- Chronology
- in 1875:
... a scrapbook for Maris, with poems by Uhland, Heine and Goethe, and fairytales by Andersen in verse.
Term(s):
Dated between:
29 September 1872 and 31 July 1890
Person:
Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) Danish writer
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