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Vincent van Gogh
Paul Gauguin
Arles
Wednesday, 3 October 1888
To Paul Gauguin. Arles, Wednesday, 3 October 1888.
Exchange of portraits with Bernard and Gauguin [(680)](let680.xml)
Gauguin coming to Arles [(602)](let602.xml)
Plans for a society of artists [(584)](let584.xml)
Decoration of the Yellow House [(665)](let665.xml)
Original manuscript
Paris, Institut national d’histoire de l’art (Fonds Roger-Marx), Carton 117, no 1385.
The letter was written the day after Van Gogh had received a letter from Eugène Boch [(l. 97)](#l-97); this was on 2 October
([see letter 693](let693.xml)), which means that the present letter must date from Wednesday, 3 October 1888.
Probably sent with [letter 696](let696.xml) to Bernard. It is not possible to tell which of the two letters was written first.
On 8 October 1888 Gauguin sent Van Gogh’s letter to Emile Schuffenecker: ‘I’m sending you a letter from Vincent so that you can see how I stand
with him and everything that’s going on at the moment’. (Je vous envoie une lettre de Vincent pour vous faire voir où j’en suis avec lui et tout
ce qui se projete en ce moment.) See Correspondance Gauguin 1984, p. 249.
Cf. Cl.-R. Marx, ‘Van Gogh et Gauguin. Lettres inédites de Van Gogh’, Europe. Revue mensuelle, 17e année, no 194, 15
February 1939, pp. 166-171.