1. For this change in Mauve’s attitude, see letter 209. The first signs of tension were mentioned as
early as letters 202-203;
Van Gogh wrote at the time that it actually made him ill.
5.Torn-up Noordstraat with diggers (F 930 a
/ JH 131), drawn from the house at no. 16 where Sien and her mother lived. See exhib. cat. The
Hague 1990, pp. 48-49.