1. The copied quotation was included in La Néerlande et la vie hollandaise. See Esquiros 1859, pp. 231-238. Van Gogh occasionally skips bits of text as well as whole sentences. There are, moreover, a few slight differences to the printed version.
2. Van Gogh omitted the following sentence: ‘Scheveningen furnishes almost no domestic staff: girls and boys, no one wants to be a servant.’