1. Regarding Der Wirthin Töchterlein, see letter 14, n. 15.

2. This was possibly a photograph after Matthijs Maris’s Margaret. Anna, in fact, wrote about it to Theo on 30 July 1874: ‘I’ve already been to see Vincent in the office three times and saw very beautiful paintings there, also the Margaret by M. Maris, of which you have the photograph’ (FR 2712). This could have been any one of three Gretchen/Margaret depictions: The bride (Church bride), 1865-1869 (The Hague, The Mesdag Collection), Girl at the pump, 1872 (Groningen, Groninger Museum) or The spinner, 1873 (Otterlo, Kröller-Müller Museum). Cf. H.E.M. Braakhuis and J. van der Vliet, ‘Bruiden, Gretchens, prinsessen en kastelen. Het werk’, Kunstschrift 34-1 (1990), pp. 9-15.

3. Woutherus Stephanus Schüller was an employee of Goupil in Paris.

4. Vincent and Anna arrived in London on Wednesday, 15 July. Theo had been informed immediately, his parents having forwarded the letter telling of Vincent and Anna’s arrival to him in The Hague (FR b2711, 18 July 1874).

5. The family of Uncle Arie Carbentus and Aunt Fie.

6. Jules Michelet, L’amour, 1858; cf. letter 27.