The song "May Be" as sung by Dave Mason
The Letters of
Vincent van Gogh
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Theo van
Gogh's wife, Johanna van Gogh-Bonger, devoted many years to compiling the letters about which she
wrote: "When as Theo's young
wife I entered in 1889, our flat in Vincent's and his brother Theo's, Johanna
van Gogh-Bonger, spent many years after her husband's death in 1891 compiling
the letters, which were first published in 1914. The editor of a
1966 selection of the letters, wrote that Theo "was the kind of man who
saved even the smallest scrap of paper", and it is to this trait that we
owe the 663 letters from Vincent. By contrast Vincent infrequently kept letters
sent him and just 84 have survived, of which 39 were from Theo. Quoted by
Vincent : Peace to the world....the Cité
Pigalle in Paris, I found at the bottom of a small desk a drawer full of
letters from Vincent". Within
two years both brothers were dead: Vincent as the result of a gunshot wound,
and Theo from illness. Joanna began the task of completing the collection,
which was published in full in January 1914. That
first edition consisted of three volumes, and was followed in 1952–1954 by a
four-volume edition that included additional letters., in
1987, that the letters be organized in date order, and undertaking that began
in when 1994 the Van Gogh Letter Project was initiated by the Van Gogh museum.
The project consists of a complete annotated collection of letters written by
and to Vincent.