1. It is not known who this employee of Goupil at Paris was, though possibly it is the same person mentioned in letter 69, ll. 23-24.
2. De opkomst van de Nederlandsche Republiek. The Hague 1859, a translation of The rise of the Dutch Republic. A history. London 1856 by John Lothrop Motley.
3. Van Gogh had left The Hague on 10 May 1873 in connection with his transfer to London.
4. Regarding Borchers’s mother and his sister Boukje, see letter 42, n. 10.
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