13 letters found

1. 074 Anna van Gogh-Carbentus, Vincent van Gogh and Theodorus van Gogh to Theo van Gogh. Etten, Tuesday, 4 April 1876.

   in translation:

   ...parture from Paris I received a letter from a teacher in Ramsgate who suggested that I come there fo...

   in note 5:

   The teacher William Port Stokes. His school was at 6 Royal Road in Ramsgate, a coastal town in the so...

2. 076 To Theodorus van Gogh and Anna van Gogh-Carbentus. Ramsgate, Monday, 17 April 1876.

   in translation:

   I arrived at Mr Stokes’s around 1 o’clock. He was away from home but will be coming back this eve...

   ...our letters which just arrived; more soon, when I’ve been here a few days and have seen Mr Stokes.

   in note 9:

   Lydia Ann Stokes-Blyth had married William Port Stokes on 25 January 1855 in Isleworth (International...

   in note 8:

   William Stokes and Lydia Ann Stokes-Blyth had a son named William Port Stokes, born in October 1855, ...

3. 077 To Theo van Gogh. Ramsgate, Monday, 17 April 1876.

   in translation:

   Mr Stokes is out of town for a couple of days and so I haven’t seen His Honour yet, but he’s expe...

   ... to give any lessons yet. I’m anxious to see Mr Stokes. I must go out with the boys, adieu. Ever

4. 078 To Theo van Gogh. Ramsgate, Friday, 21 April 1876.

   in translation:

   Mr Stokes didn’t come back until today; he’s a rather large man with a bald head and whiskers. Th...

5. 079 To Theo van Gogh. Ramsgate, Friday, 28 April 1876.

   in translation:

   Mr Stokes told me that he intends to move after the holidays – with the whole school, naturally –...

6. 080 To Theo van Gogh. Ramsgate, Monday, 1 May 1876.

   in translation:

   ...lowing so hard here yesterday afternoon that Mr Stokes didn’t want the boys to go out. I asked per...

7. 083 To Theo van Gogh. Ramsgate, Wednesday, 31 May 1876.

   in translation:

   Mr Stokes was sometimes moody during those days, and when the boys were too boisterous for him it som...

8. 084 To Theo van Gogh. Welwyn, Saturday, 17 June 1876.

   in translation:

   ...eak about this to anyone, Theo. My salary at Mr Stokes’s will be very small. Probably only board a...

   ...G.&Co. and have since taught for 2 months at Mr Stokes’s school at Ramsgate. As my goal is a situa...

   in note 7:

   ...ote the following to Theo on 1 July 1876: ‘Mr Stokes doesn’t want to give him a salary, but inst...

9. 085 To Theo van Gogh. Isleworth, Monday, 3 or Tuesday, 4 July 1876.

   in translation:

   Mr Stokes says he definitely cannot give me a salary, for he can get plenty of people who’ll work f...

   in note 1:

   ...living at Linkfield House, 183 Twickenham Road, where William Port Stokes had set up his new school.

10. 086 To Theo van Gogh. Isleworth, Saturday, 8 July 1876.

    in note 8:

    ... a reference. Vincent meanwhile told this to Mr Stokes, who is now offering him 25 shillings a month...

    in note 1:

    ...n House’) was at 158 Twickenham Road; William Port Stokes’s school (‘Linkfield House’) was i...

11. 087 To Theo van Gogh. Isleworth, Wednesday, 2 August 1876.

    in translation:

    ... all the same; there were lots of bedbugs at Mr Stokes’s, but that view from the school window mad...

12. 093 To Theo van Gogh. Isleworth, Saturday, 7 and Sunday, 8 October 1876.

    in translation:

    ...he shadows were long, and we chanced to meet Mr Stokes’s school, where there are still several boy...

    ...f London, there I visited a boy who had left Mr Stokes’s school because of illness, and I found hi...

    in note 1:

    Since Van Gogh’s former employer, Mr Stokes, had moved his school in June, Stokes’s school was ne...

13. 094 To Anna van Gogh-Carbentus and Theo van Gogh. Isleworth, Friday, 13 October 1876.

    in translation:

    I hope to visit Mr Stokes’s school one of these days. And then I hope to buy a new pair of shoes to...

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1. Overview of all the letters

   in overview:

   William Port Stokes, schoolmaster and clergyman in Ramsgate

2. Chronology

   in 1876:

   ...e up a position as an assistant teacher at William Stokes’s boarding school for boys. Lodges at 11 ...

   ...ndon), Linkfield House, 183 Twickenham Road, where Stokes has opened his new school (85, FR b2756).