Letter 063 Ramsgate, April 28 1876 拉姆斯盖特 1876年4月28日

Dear Theo, Many happy returns, my best wishes for this day, may our mutual 相互的 love increase with the years. I am so glad that we have so many things in common, not only memories of childhood but also that you are working in the same business in which I was till now and know so many people and places which I know also, and that you have so much love for nature and art. 我非常高兴我们有如此多的共同点，我们不仅有对童年的共同的回忆，而且你的工作我也从事过，你认识的很多人和事我也知道，尤其是你还非常热爱自然与艺术。 Mr. Stokes has told me that he intends to move after the holidays, of course with the whole school, to a little village on the Thames 泰晤士河 about three hours from London 伦敦 . There he will organize his school somewhat differently and perhaps enlarge 扩大 it. Now I am going to tell you about a walk we took yesterday. It was to an inlet 入口 of the sea, and the road thither 到那里 led through fields of young corn and along hedges of hawthorn 山楂, etc. Arriving there, we saw to our left a high steep 陡峭的 ridge 山脊 of sand and stone as tall as a two-storey 两层 house. On the top of it were old, gnarled hawthorn 山楂 bushes, whose black and grey moss-grown stems 长着苔藓的茎 and branches were all bent to one side by the wind; there were also a few elder bushes. The ground on which we walked was covered all over with big grey stones, chalk and shells. To the right lay the sea, as calm as a pond 池塘 and reflecting the light of the transparent 透明的 grey sky where the sun was setting. The tide 潮 was out and the water very low. Thanks for your letter of yesterday, I am very glad that Willem Valkis is also an employee of the house. Give him my best regards. I wish I could walk once more with you through my woods, to Scheveningen. Have a pleasant day today and give my love to all who may ask about me and believe me, Your loving brother, Vincent Once more my best wishes, lad 伙计 , I hope you will begin a happy and prosperous 兴旺的,成功的 year. These are important years that we are living through now and much depends on them. May everything come out all right. A hearty handshake. À Dieu.

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