16 November
That little drawing, ‘The Au charbonnage café’ is really nothing special, but the reason I couldn’t help making it is because one sees so many coalmen, and they really are a remarkable people. This little house is not far from Trekweg, it’s actually a simple inn right next to the big workplace where the workers come in their free time to eat their bread and drink a glass of beer.
Back during my time in England I applied for a position as an evangelist among the coal-miners, but they brushed my request aside and said I had to be at least 25 years old.
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I lived in the Netherland between Jan 4, 1939 until Nov. 7, 1941. My twin and I came on a Kindertransport. Two of those years we spent in Leiden in two different families. We went to school and learned quite a bit about art. I soon loved what I saw of the golden age of Holland, but later I loved Vincent van Gogh even more. The young family with their four small children did not survive, still causing me grief so many years later. –
I always had the impression that Vincent van Gogh wanted nothing so much as to make people happy. His choice of colors, and his extraordinary sympathy with other human beings speaks for it.
Thank you for publishing these beautiful letters. I still know quite a bit of the Dutch I learned during my stay.
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