Yesterday I visited Rotterdam for a while.. .It is a beautiful city. Always turbulent, dirty and picturesque, especially the vest and the harbor-neighborhoods. For the newer city I don't care at all.

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version in original Dutch (citaat van Breitner's brief, in het Nederlands:) Gisteren was ik nog even in Rotterdam.. ..'t is toch een mooie stad. Altijd woelig, smerig en schilderachtig, vooral de vest en de havenbuurten, voor 't nieuwe gedeelte geef ik geen duit.

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Quote from Breitner's letter to A. P. van Stolk, The Hague, 8 Febr. 1882; as cited in Breitner en Parijs' – master-thesis 9928758], by Jacobine Wieringa, Faculty of Humanities Theses, Utrecht, (translation from the original Dutch, Fons Heijnsbroek), p. 10

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