Letter 028 Paris, 19 June 1875
Dear Theo,
I had hoped to revisit her before her death 1, but it was not to have been. L鈥檋omme s鈥檃gite et Dieu le m猫ne [Man proposes and God disposes.]
In the first box that we shall send to Holland you will find a photograph of that picture by Ph. De Champagne of which Michelet says, 鈥淚t stayed in my memory for thirty years, coming back to me incessantly.鈥?Further, an etching by Daubigny after Ruysdael, 鈥淭he Bush鈥? a lithograph after Corot,
鈥淪unset鈥? a lithograph by Bodmer, 鈥淔ontainebleau in Autumn鈥? and two etchings by Jacque. 脌 Dieu.
Vincent
I do not know how long I will stay here; nevertheless, I hope to go to Helvoirt before returning to London,
and I would like to believe that you will be there as well. I will pay for the trip.
You will certainly not forget her, or her death, but it is better to keep that to yourself.
It is one of those things that, as time goes by, we 鈥渁re sorrowful but always rejoicing鈥? that is what we have to learn.
1. See letter 26