1. The fourth printing of Andersen’s prentenboek zonder prenten: Vertellingen van de maan, translated by J.J.L. ten Kate and published in 1870 by A.W. Sijthoff in Leiden, states the price on the cover: ‘15 cents’ (Reeks Algemeene bibliotheek, no. 8). The first edition of the Vertellingen van de maan (Tales of the moon) dates from 1862. The tales, subdivided in the translation into ten evenings, relate events on earth as observed by the moon.
2. Regarding ‘the packages in question’, see letter 66, l. 16.
3. Ps. 4:7 (in KJ Ps. 4:6) and rhy. ps. 4:3.
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