1.
It is not known who this employee of Goupil at Paris was, though possibly it is the same person mentioned in
letter 69, ll. 23-24
.
2.
De opkomst van de Nederlandsche Republiek
. The Hague 1859, a translation of
The rise of the Dutch Republic. A history
. London 1856 by
John Lothrop Motley
.
3.
Van Gogh had left The Hague on 10 May 1873 in connection with his transfer to London.
4.
Regarding
Borchers’s mother
and his sister
Boukje
,
see letter 42, n. 10.
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