…and egotistically I add, for me too

I just send you my best wishes for the New Year. May it be a good year for you in every respect, and egotistically I add, for me too. Well, as for me it will perhaps please you to hear that I am installed in a studio of my own - a room with an alcove. . . .

I did not dare hope that it would happen so soon, but now I am very glad, and I hope you also will approve of it.

To Theo van Gogh, from The Hague, 1-2 January 1882, Letter 167
Translation courtesy of Robert Harrison.
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