1. Two English hymnals: see letter 80.

2. The Dutch town of Vaals – in the Netherlands’ southernmost province of Limburg – lies just over the border from the German city of Aachen.

3. These letters did not result in work for Anna; on or about 11 May 1876, she wrote to her parents: ‘The situation I applied for has come to nothing’ (FR b2749).

4. The minister Johannes Paulus Stricker was married to Willemina Catharina Gerardina Carbentus, a sister of Mrs van Gogh. The couple lived in Amsterdam.