1. This was Theo’s letter 894.

2. This was letter 892.

3. The letter sketch Girl against a background of wheat (F - / JH 2054) was made after the painting of the same name F 774 / JH 2053 , which measures 92 x 73 cm.

4. The letter sketch Wheatfields (F - / JH 2039) was made after the painting of the same name F 775 / JH 2038 .

5. The letter sketch Couple walking between rows of poplars (F - / JH 2042) was made after the painting of the same name F 773 / JH 2041 .

a. Read: ‘vécu’.

6. This must refer to two-year-old Germaine Ravoux.

b. Read: ‘quand elle’.

7. This inn was perhaps Auberge Saint-Aubin or Café-Auberge Chez Colignon. See letter 873, n. 1, and letter 876, n. 4.

8. Van Gogh had placed this order for paint in letter 893. Theo possibly sent Georges Lecomte’s article ‘L’exposition des néo-impressionistes. Pavillon de la Ville de Paris (Champs-Elysées)’, L’Art et Critique. Revue Littéraire, Dramatique, Musicale et Artistique 2 (29 March 1890), no. 44, pp. 203-205. The following is an excerpt from what Lecomte wrote about the works on display: ‘Mr Vincent Van Gogh’s wild impastoes and his exclusive use of colours with flowing harmonies create powerful effects: the purple backgrounds of “Cypresses” and the symphony of greens in a patch of undergrowth make a vivid impression’. (Les empâtements farouches de M. Vincent Van Gogh et son emploi exclusif de couleurs aux harmonies aisées aboutissent à des effects puissants: les fonds violets de «Cypres» et la symphonie des verts d’un sous bois impressionnent vivement). For the works by Van Gogh on display at this exhibition, see letter 854, n. 7.

9. That is a Paris address. When he was in Auvers Edmund Walpole Brooke stayed at Hotel-restaurant du Cadran in rue Victor Hugo, which is the address scribbled on a calling card of his in the family estate: ‘Holet [i.e. Hotel] du Cadran / Auvers-sur-Oise’ (FR b9063).