凡高艺术馆

Letter 051

Paris, January 1876
巴黎 1876年1月

Dear Theo,

In the first box going to The Hague 海牙 you will find a few parcels 包裹 ; will you be so kind as to send them on?

First, there is one for yourself, which contains Felix Holt. When you have read it, please send it to Etten 埃顿（凡高父母现在的居住地）; and when they have finished it, please have them return it here, for it does not belong to me. It is a book that impressed me very much, and I am sure it will be the same with you. There is also a parcel for Mr. Tersteeg 特斯蒂格 and one for his wife, and also one for Mauve 安东·莫夫（海牙画派画家） and his wife 莫夫的妻子是凡高的表妹 . I wrote Mauve that someday he must ask you for that book on Michel; please show it to him when you have a chance. There is also a parcel for Father. Try to send it to Etten in time for his birthday; perhaps you might add Felix Holt, and you can read it after it has been to Etten - maybe that will be the best. In the little roll 卷筒 addressed to you are three etchings after Jules Dupré - one for Uncle Jan van Gogh 约翰伯伯 with my kindest regards and one for Father. There is also a lithograph after Bodmer and an etching by Jacque for Father. Another lithograph, after Cabat, is for you.

Cabat resembles 像、相似 Ruysdael. There are two beautiful pictures of his at the Luxembourg 卢森堡博物馆 : one, a pond 池塘 with trees around it in autumn at sunset; the other, a road along a waterside 水边 and a few large oak 橡树 trees on a grey autumn evening. The etching after Jules Dupré is beautiful. It is from an album 画集 of six which includes Dupré' s portrait . He has such a simple and noble face, it reminds me somehow of Mauve; but he is older, and perhaps in reality they do not look at all alike.

You are right to take English lessons; you will not be sorry. I should like to send you a Longfellow and Andersen's Fairy Tales 仙女的故事 ; I shall try to get them. If I send them, read especially Longfellow's Evangeline 伊万杰琳 , Miles Standish, King Robert of Sicily, etc.

And now it is again time to say good-by, with a firm handshake. Regards to Roos 鲁斯一家 , and to anybody who asks about me, and believe me always

Your loving brother, Vincent

Also give my compliments to friend Borchers.

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