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\title{Theo van Gogh to Vincent van Gogh. Paris, Saturday, 5 July 1890.}
\date{Saturday, 5 July 1890}}
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\selectlanguage{english}
\section*{Metadata}
\subsection*{Source status:}

Original manuscript

\subsection*{Location:}

Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, inv. no. b767 V/1962

\subsection*{Date:}

Letter headed: ‘Paris le 5 Juillet 1890’. 

\subsection*{Additional:}

\section*{Original}
\selectlanguage{french}

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\\
Paris le 5 Juillet 1890.

\\
Mon cher Vincent,
\\
Merçi bien de ta lettre. \\Heureusement la mienne t’apporte \\de bonnes nouvelles du petit. Après \\quelques jours de souffrance il a \\recommencé à être gai \& ne plus \\autant se plaindre.\footnote[1]{\TeiAnchor{

Andries Bonger\footnote{
Andries (André or Dries) Bonger

(1861-1936) friend of Theo in Paris, brother of Jo van Gogh-Bonger
} wrote to his parents\footnote{
Hendrik Christiaan Bonger

(1828-1904) father of Jo van Gogh-Bonger
} the day before: ‘Little Vincent\footnote{
Vincent Willem van Gogh

(1890-1978) son of Theo van Gogh
} is infinitely better. Net [Jo\footnote{
Johanna (Jo or Net) Gezina van Gogh-Bonger

(1862-1925) wife of Theo van Gogh
}] doesn’t want to believe it, but we are sure it’s teeth’ (FR b1856).
}} C’est grace \\au bon lait d’anesses que nous lui \\donnons actuellement. Les animaux \\viennent à la porte \& il reçoit le \\matin du lait chaud, toujours 
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\\de la même bête. Ensuite il reste \\encore pour deux fois, qu’il reçoit \\alternativement avec le lait de \\sa mère, qui vient maintenant \\en abondance. Il a excellente mine \\à l’heurre qu’il est. Il faut \\qu’il prenne le lait d’anesse au \\moins pendant 15 jours \& nous ne pourrons \\donc pas aller chez Pissarro le 14 Juillet.
\footnote[2]{\TeiAnchor{
On 6 July 1890, Camille Pissarro\footnote{
Camille Jacob Pissarro

(1830-1903) French artist
} wrote that he hoped that Theo would be able to visit him in Eragny on 14 July, in the company of Vincent and Andries Bonger\footnote{
Andries (André or Dries) Bonger

(1861-1936) friend of Theo in Paris, brother of Jo van Gogh-Bonger
}. This visit did not take place (Photocopy of this letter in Van Gogh Museum, Documentation).
}} \\J’ai donc pris ce jour pour aller chez \\Claude Monet avec Valadon\footnote[3]{\TeiAnchor{

René Valadon\footnote{
René Valadon

(1848-1921) art dealer in Paris
}, Theo’s employer and the founder of Boussod, Valadon \& Cie\footnote{

Boussod, Valadon \& Cie

art dealers in Paris, successors of Goupil \& Cie
}.
}} qui certes \\m’ammerdera\footnote[a]{\TeiAnchor{
Read: ‘m’emmerdera’.
}} ce jour, mais je suis \\content d’aller voir les nouveaux \\travaux de Monet. Il n’y a pas de raison \\pour que tu recule ta venue, non que \\nous n’apprécions pas que tu as voulu 
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\\venir partager mes douleurs, au \\contraire merçi, mais avec un malade \\moins qu’il y a de monde, mieux \\cela vaut. Vient donc si tu veux \\Dimanche avec le premier train, \\tu verras le matin Walpoole Brooke \\qui vient voir tes tableaux chez \\Tangui, ensuite un Bouda japonais \\que j’ai vu chez un brocanteur \& \\après cela nous allons déjeuner chez \\nous pour voir tes études à toi. \\Tu resteras chez nous tant que tu \\voudras \& tu nous donneras conseil \\pour l’arrangement de notre nouvel \\appartement. Probablement Dries \& \\Annie viendront au rez de chaussée \\\& ils auront un petit jardin dont nous, \\naturellement, profiterons. Si cela veut 
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\\marcher avec les deux femmes cela promet \\du bon. Peutêtre bien que Dries viendra \\chez nous. J’ai beaucoup de chance \\dans les affaires sinon comme \\ventes de tableaux de fs 800000000000 \\mais j’ai entre autres vendu deux \\Gauguins pour lesquels je lui ai \\envoyé le montant.\footnote[4]{\TeiAnchor{
This most likely refers to 
Dog running in the grass
(present whereabouts unknown, not in Wildenstein), sold on 5 July 1890 to Eugène Blot for 200 francs (Gauguin\footnote{
Paul (Eugène Henri) Gauguin

(1848-1903) French artist
} received 150 francs), and 
Oranges and lemons with view of Pont-Aven
, 1889 (W401) (Baden, Stiftung Langmatt Sidney und Jenny Brown), sold on 30 April 1890 to Ernest Chausson for 300 francs. See GRI, Goupil Ledgers, nos. 20859 and 20648; Gauguin lettres 1983, p. 183; and exhib. cat. Amsterdam 1999, pp. 139, 212.
}} Pissarro m’écrit \\qu’il n’a pas pu payer son loyer, \\je vais lui envoyer un petit acompte \\sur les affaires que nous ferons. \\Voyons, son exposition lui a bien donné \\quelque chose mais c’était toujours pour \\boucher des trous. Il a eu un abcès à \\l’oeil. Pauvre vieux!\footnote[5]{\TeiAnchor{
Theo had written to Pissarro\footnote{
Camille Jacob Pissarro

(1830-1903) French artist
} on 5 July that he would send 500 francs ‘to be deducted from the deals that we will make, and we will do many, it’s a firm promise, if you’ll only be sure to take good care of yourself and of your eye’. (à valoir sur les affaires que nous ferons, et nous en ferons beaucoup, c’est dit et promis, si seulement vous voulez bien vous soigner et soigner votre oeil). See Jampoller 1986, p. 59 and Correspondance Pissarro 1980-1991, vol. 2, p. 354 (n. 1). For the Pissarro exhibition at Theo’s, \href{let858.xml#n-9}{see letter 858, n. 9.} See also \TeiRefIII{n. 2} above; regarding Pissarro’s eye complaint, \href{let799.xml#n-5}{see letter 799, n. 5.}

}} Bonjour frère, \\nous comptons te voir Dimanche. Bien \\bonjour de Jo \& le petit te sourit \\comme avant sa maladie. Bonne \\poignée de mains de ton frère qui t’aime

\\
Theo

\\
Bonjour à Dr Gachet \\\& les siens.

\\
Le croquis du paysage à la Michel promet\footnote[6]{\TeiAnchor{
The letter sketch Wheatfields (F - / JH 2039) in \href{let896.xml}{letter 896}, after the painting of the same name F 775 / JH 2038.
}} \\\& le portrait doit être superbe.\footnote[7]{\TeiAnchor{
The painting Girl against a background of wheat (F 774 / JH 2053), after which Van Gogh made the letter sketch of the same name F - / JH 2054 in \href{let896.xml}{letter 896}.
}}

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\section*{Translation}

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Paris 5 July 1890

My dear Vincent,

Thanks very much for your letter. Fortunately mine brings you good news of the little one\footnote{
Vincent Willem van Gogh

(1890-1978) son of Theo van Gogh
}. After a few days of suffering he has started to be jolly again and no longer to cry so much.\footnote[1]{\TeiAnchor{

Andries Bonger\footnote{
Andries (André or Dries) Bonger

(1861-1936) friend of Theo in Paris, brother of Jo van Gogh-Bonger
} wrote to his parents\footnote{
Hendrik Christiaan Bonger

(1828-1904) father of Jo van Gogh-Bonger
} the day before: ‘Little Vincent\footnote{
Vincent Willem van Gogh

(1890-1978) son of Theo van Gogh
} is infinitely better. Net [Jo\footnote{
Johanna (Jo or Net) Gezina van Gogh-Bonger

(1862-1925) wife of Theo van Gogh
}] doesn’t want to believe it, but we are sure it’s teeth’ (FR b1856).
}} It’s thanks to the good ass’s milk we’re currently giving him. The animals come to the door, and in the morning he receives warm milk, always 
\marginpar{[1v:2]} from the same animal. Afterwards there’s still enough for two doses, which he receives alternately with his mother’s milk, which is now coming in abundance. He looks extremely well at the moment. He must take the ass’s milk for at least a fortnight, and so we can’t go to Pissarro\footnote{
Camille Jacob Pissarro

(1830-1903) French artist
}’s on 14 July.\footnote[2]{\TeiAnchor{
On 6 July 1890, Camille Pissarro\footnote{
Camille Jacob Pissarro

(1830-1903) French artist
} wrote that he hoped that Theo would be able to visit him in Eragny on 14 July, in the company of Vincent and Andries Bonger\footnote{
Andries (André or Dries) Bonger

(1861-1936) friend of Theo in Paris, brother of Jo van Gogh-Bonger
}. This visit did not take place (Photocopy of this letter in Van Gogh Museum, Documentation).
}} So I’ve taken that day to go to see Claude Monet\footnote{
Claude Oscar Monet

(1840-1926) French artist
} with Valadon\footnote{
René Valadon

(1848-1921) art dealer in Paris
},\footnote[3]{\TeiAnchor{

René Valadon\footnote{
René Valadon

(1848-1921) art dealer in Paris
}, Theo’s employer and the founder of Boussod, Valadon \& Cie\footnote{

Boussod, Valadon \& Cie

art dealers in Paris, successors of Goupil \& Cie
}.
}} who will certainly get on my nerves on that day, but I’m content to go and see the new works by Monet. There’s no reason for you to put back your arrival, not that we don’t appreciate that you wanted 
\marginpar{[1v:3]} to come and share my pains, on the contrary, thank you, but with a patient, the fewer people there are around the better it is. So come if you like on Sunday with the first train, in the morning you’ll see Walpole Brooke\footnote{
Edmund Walpole Brooke

(1865-1938) Australian artist
}, who’s coming to see your paintings at Tanguy\footnote{
Julien François Tanguy (père Tanguy)

(1825-1894) seller of artists' materials in Paris
}’s, next a Japanese Buddha which I saw in a curio shop, and after that we’re going to have lunch at our place to see your studies. You can stay with us as long as you want, and you can give us advice on the arrangement of our new apartment. Dries\footnote{
Andries (André or Dries) Bonger

(1861-1936) friend of Theo in Paris, brother of Jo van Gogh-Bonger
} and Annie\footnote{
Anne (Annie) Marie Louise Bonger-Van der Linden

(1859-1931) wife of Andries Bonger
} will probably come to the ground floor, and they’ll have a little garden which we, naturally, will have the benefit of. If the two women 
\marginpar{[1r:4]} get on with each other it promises well. Perhaps good that Dries will come to our place. I’m having a lot of luck in business, even if I haven’t sold paintings for 800,000,000,000 francs, but among other things I’ve sold two Gauguin\footnote{
Paul (Eugène Henri) Gauguin

(1848-1903) French artist
}s, for which I’ve sent him the amount.\footnote[4]{\TeiAnchor{
This most likely refers to 
Dog running in the grass
(present whereabouts unknown, not in Wildenstein), sold on 5 July 1890 to Eugène Blot for 200 francs (Gauguin\footnote{
Paul (Eugène Henri) Gauguin

(1848-1903) French artist
} received 150 francs), and 
Oranges and lemons with view of Pont-Aven
, 1889 (W401) (Baden, Stiftung Langmatt Sidney und Jenny Brown), sold on 30 April 1890 to Ernest Chausson for 300 francs. See GRI, Goupil Ledgers, nos. 20859 and 20648; Gauguin lettres 1983, p. 183; and exhib. cat. Amsterdam 1999, pp. 139, 212.
}} Pissarro\footnote{
Camille Jacob Pissarro

(1830-1903) French artist
} wrote to me that he wasn’t able to pay his rent, I’m going to send him a little advance on the business we’ll do. You see, his exhibition really brought him in something, but still just to plug the holes. He’s had an abscess on the eye. Poor old chap!\footnote[5]{\TeiAnchor{
Theo had written to Pissarro\footnote{
Camille Jacob Pissarro

(1830-1903) French artist
} on 5 July that he would send 500 francs ‘to be deducted from the deals that we will make, and we will do many, it’s a firm promise, if you’ll only be sure to take good care of yourself and of your eye’. (à valoir sur les affaires que nous ferons, et nous en ferons beaucoup, c’est dit et promis, si seulement vous voulez bien vous soigner et soigner votre oeil). See Jampoller 1986, p. 59 and Correspondance Pissarro 1980-1991, vol. 2, p. 354 (n. 1). For the Pissarro exhibition at Theo’s, \href{let858.xml#n-9}{see letter 858, n. 9.} See also \TeiRefIII{n. 2} above; regarding Pissarro’s eye complaint, \href{let799.xml#n-5}{see letter 799, n. 5.}

}} Good-day to you brother, we’re counting on seeing you on Sunday. Warm regards from Jo\footnote{
Johanna (Jo or Net) Gezina van Gogh-Bonger

(1862-1925) wife of Theo van Gogh
}, and the little one\footnote{
Vincent Willem van Gogh

(1890-1978) son of Theo van Gogh
} is smiling at you like before he was ill. Good handshake from your brother who loves you.

Theo

Regards to Dr Gachet\footnote{
Paul-Ferdinand Gachet Sr

(1828-1909) doctor in Auvers-sur-Oise
} and his family.

The croquis of the landscape à la Michel\footnote{
Georges Michel

(1763-1843) French artist
} is promising,\footnote[6]{\TeiAnchor{
The letter sketch Wheatfields (F - / JH 2039) in \href{let896.xml}{letter 896}, after the painting of the same name F 775 / JH 2038.
}} and the portrait must be superb.\footnote[7]{\TeiAnchor{
The painting Girl against a background of wheat (F 774 / JH 2053), after which Van Gogh made the letter sketch of the same name F - / JH 2054 in \href{let896.xml}{letter 896}.
}}

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