Letter 10/22/1883 - by Vincent van Gogh

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I have sketched a few more subjects from around here. The country is so lovely that I cannot describe it to you. When I can paint a little better - then!

Arrange things that concern me as suits best, I would learn here and learn there too, I think.

These were some people I saw on the peat moor; they were sitting behind a stack of peat, with a bonfire in the foreground, and eating. [The second drawing is of] peat loaders, though I am afraid it is impossible to decipher my scribbles.

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