1. Diakoniehuismannetjes received support from the poor board of the Netherlands Reformed Congregation.
2. The depot where Van Gogh was working was between the line to Gouda and a branch that joined up with the Rotterdam-Amsterdam line. There were engine sheds and a workshop, and piles of coal. See exhib. cat. The Hague 1990, p. 31.
3. This painting of the coal store is not known.
4. This painted study (cf. ll. 37-39) of a court is not known.
5. The recent seascape, which was also mentioned in letter 264, is not known. The seascapes, which were among Van Gogh’s first painted works, were Beach with fishing boats (F 2 / JH 173 [2383]) and View of the sea at Scheveningen (F 4 / JH 187 [2390]).
[2383] [2390]
6. To some extent an old-fashioned view: there certainly was a separate market for ‘successful studies’. See Boime 1971.
7. Van Gogh made this comparison – cf. 2 Cor. 9:6 and Gal. 6:7 – earlier in a similar context, see letter 265, n. 13.
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