1. This drawing is not known. With regard to the title, cf. Isa. 53:2: ‘As a root out of a dry ground’.
2. Les racines. Study of a tree (F 933r / JH 142 [2371]).
[2371]
a. Read: ‘send’.
3. This large version of Sorrow is not known; see letter 222, n. 1.
4. Regarding this advice, probably prompted by reading Edmond and Jules de Goncourt’s Gavarni, l’homme et l’oeuvre, see letter 216, n. 4.
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