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" "In the back of the garden of the hostelry where I am staying there is a settee; when one is sitting there you get precisely a nice view on the abandoned castle of Vorden. Often I see the old reverend clergyman sitting there, certainly for having a real rural view on the meadow, or for being able to turn his eyes to the old grayed-up walls of the castle, and coming in that way to the thought how all human labor is brought back to Nothing by the breath of the ages. (translation from Dutch, Fons Heijnsbroek).
Johannes Warnardus Bilders (18 August 1811 – 29 October 1890) was a Dutch landscape-painter who was the father of Gerard Bilders (1838–1865) and a forerunner of the Hague School. In 1880 he married the woman-painter Marie Bilders-van Bosse, his former pupil.
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version in original Dutch (citaat van Johannes Warnardus Bilders' brief, in het Nederlands:) Achter in de tuin van de herreberg waar ik gehuisvest ben, staat een bank, als men op die bank zit, heeft men juist het gezicht, op het oude verlaten kasteel van Vorden. dikwijls zie ik de oude eerwaarde geestelijke op die plaats zich neder zetten, zeker om het recht landelijke gezicht op de weide te hebben, of om zijn ogen naar de oude vergrijsde muren van het slot te wenden, en zoo tot de gedachte te komen, hoe toch alle menschen werk, door de adem der eeuwen tot het niet wordt te rug gebracht.
version in original Dutch (citaat van Johannes Warnardus Bilders, in Nederlands): Moet dat nu mooi heeten? - neen, de menschen zijn gek, of ik! - Wat leerde ik nu te Oosterbeek die Natuur gansch anders aankijken! In 't begin kon ik niets goeds maken; ik zag al gauw, dat ik weer van voren af aan moest beginnen.
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The last two days I have not painted on [his painting of] the Castle [in Vorden!] It is lying now on the roof to dry. it looks terribly gloomy.. .Good-bye, dear Miss. I still have to read in the great German philosopher Schopenhauer, a man who thought that all the misery he saw in life was created by an evil spirit who created this earth. - Good night, dear Miss, it is 2 o'clock in the night, already and the letter must still be mailed by post. (translation from Dutch, Fons Heijnsbroek).