1. De Bock’s studio was at Van Stolkweg 20; Blommers lived at Van Stolkweg 17.
2. Van Gogh’s model was the orphan man Adrianus Jacobus Zuyderland (see letter 267).
3. The Nederlands Hervormd Oude-mannen-en-vrouwenhuis at Z. Buitensingel 1.
4. This was the beginning of June (see letter 351).
5. The drawing on which the letter sketch Gardener near a gnarled apple tree (F - / JH 380) is based is not known. The lithograph with the same title, (F 1659 / JH 379 [3030]) [3030], has, however, survived.
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6. It is not known who this ‘second’ surveyor – in addition to Antoine Philippe Furnée – was. As becomes apparent later in the letter, like the 21-year-old Furnée, he was an examination candidate.
7. The photographs are specified later in the letter. The three photographs have survived from the estate of L.W.R. Wenckebach. They belonged to the collection of Anthon van Rappard, who must have been given them by Van Gogh. The drawings after which the photographs were made have been lost. They are Peat diggers in the dunes (F 1031 / JH 363 [2437]); Potato grubbers (F 1034 / JH 372 [2442]) and Sower (F 1035 / JH 374 [2443]). There are prints in the RKD in The Hague and the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam (inv. nos. p 628-630). See exhib. cat. Vienna 1996, pp. 146-147, cat. nos. 43-45.
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8. For this photographer, see letter 361, n. 34.
9. Which particular letter fragment Van Gogh has in mind here has not been established.
10. Van Gogh had written the same before, in letter 361.
11. A reference to the earlier loan of 25 guilders from Van Rappard: see letter 339.
12. Van Rappard had visited Van Gogh in mid-May; Van Gogh returned the courtesy on or about 21 May: see letters 343 and 345.
13. Vincent reported to Theo on 3 June 1883 that he had written to Uncle Cor: see letter 349.
14. An unknown sketch after Peat diggers in the dunes (F 1031 / JH 363 [2437]).
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15. It is not certain whether this sketch was made after The sandpit at Dekkersduin near The Hague (F 1029 / JH 366 [2439]).
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16. The question Van Gogh mentions relates to what took place in June 1882 (see letters 235-237).
17. Daniël Franken Dzn was the brother of C.M. van Gogh’s second wife Johanna Franken. From 1871 he lived in Paris. It is not known who was meant by the ‘low’ (working class) woman.
18. In letter 204 Van Gogh had also written that Uncle Vincent had said this in the summer of 1881; around that time he had received a paintbox from him (letter 173).
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