At the moment I quite often go to draw with Breitner, a young painter who's acquainted with Rochussen as I am with Mauve. He draws very skilfully and very differently from me, and we often draw types together in the soup kitchen or the waiting room. He sometimes comes to my studio to look at woodcuts, and I go to see the ones he has as well.

Letter to his brother Theo, The Hague, Monday, 13 February 1882