1. This is the unknown large version of Sorrow (see letter 222, n. 1) and Study of a tree (F 933r / JH 142 [2371]), which were mentioned in letter 226 as having been sent.
[2371]
2. Van Gogh added ‘perspective and proportion’ later.
3. Both Sien and her mother were registered as living at Noordstraat 16 and Slijkeinde 31. In May (the exact date is not known) the address became Slijkeinde, corner of Breedstraat 31a (GAH and exhib. cat. The Hague 1990, pp. 50-52). For Van Gogh’s drawings of this house, see letter 231.
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