1. From 1880 onwards Elisabeth, who was staying with her parents to regain her strength, looked after Catharina Marianne Louise du Quesne van Bruchem-Van Willis at Villa Eikenhorst in Soesterberg; she was her companion until 1885. Catharina was the first wife of Jean Philippe Theodore du Quesne van Bruchem, a lawyer and deputy district judge in Amersfoort. Catharina, bedridden with cancer, was later also cared for by Willemien (cf. letter 763). She died on 17 May 1889.
On 17 December 1891 Elisabeth married the widower in Leiden. They had five children, one of them, Hubertine Normance van Gogh, born out of wedlock on 3 August 1886 in Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte (Manche).
2. Willemien, whom Van Rappard got to know in early June 1881 when he stayed in Etten (cf. letter 168).
3. Henricus Johannes de Mol, physician, surgeon and accoucheur, who lived in the adjoining village of Lieshout, was the duty medical practitioner for Nuenen from 1876 to 1894 (Nuenen did not get its own doctor, J. Raupp, until 17 July 1897). The doctor Mr van Gogh summoned was A.L.K.H. van de Loo. It is about 7.5 km from Eindhoven to Nuenen.
4. Matt. 6:34.
5. Van Gogh had been to see Van Rappard on 20 December 1883 (see letter 416, n. 1).
6. This letter is not known.
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