1. Since Roulin’s departure for Marseille on 21 January 1889, his wife Augustine and their children had been staying with her mother in Lambesc.

2. Van Gogh mentions the same number of canvases in letter 809 to Bernard; see n. 4 to that letter for the works in question.

3. Van Gogh likely wrote to Roulin about his plan to put himself in the care of Dr Gachet in Auvers. See letter 808, n. 9.

4. Augustine Roulin’s mother was Rosalie Pelicot-Décès.