1. ‘Those gentlemen’ are Theo’s employers at Boussod, Valadon & Cie. Theo had written about his talk with them to Mrs van Gogh and Willemien, but not to Vincent; see letter 901, n. 5.

2. This example was probably chosen because Theo had recently sold a Corot for a great deal of money (see letter 894).

a. Read: ‘effondrée’.