1. For Van Rappard’s Tile painters , which would be shown at the Amsterdam International Exhibition, see letter 331, n. 14.

a. Means: ‘uit elkaar gehaald’ (taken apart).

2. For The Graphic Portfolio, see letter 235, n. 47.

3. For Herkomer’s Low lodging house St. Giles’s , included in The Graphic Portfolio of 1877, see letter 303, n. 10.

4. Arthur Boyd Houghton, Shaker Evans at home, in The Graphic 4 (26 August 1871), p. 213. There is a copy in the estate. Ill. 971 (t*101).

5. Arthur Boyd Houghton, Landing cotton at Liverpool, in The Graphic 12 (11 December 1875), p. 581. There is a copy in the estate. Ill. 963 (t*446).

6. Arthur Boyd Houghton, Carrying the mail, in The Graphic 4 (29 July 1871), p. 116. There is a copy in the estate. Ill. 965 (t*838).

7. This may refer either to Boyd Houghton’s small engraving Doing Niagara, in The Graphic 1 (16 July 1870), p. 57, or to The Grand Duke Alexis of Russia under Niagara Falls, on the front page of The Graphic 5 (17 February 1872), p. 141. Ill. 967 and Ill. 2089 .

8. Cf. Scheveningen woman with wheelbarrow (F 1021 / JH 362), letter 331, n. 5.

9. For Boyd Houghton’s Our artist’s Christmas entertainment – Arrival of the visitors , see letter 305, n. 18.

10. For Van der Weele’s A misty morning, see letter 327, n. 1.

11. Van Gogh had written earlier that The Graphic provided models: see letter 215.

12. Matt. 5:16.

b. Read: ‘door middel van’ (by means of).

c. The thinking is: My objection to exhibitions means that I would prefer to apply more and better ways of bringing art to the people, rather than deprive the public of art because of that objection.

13. George Eliot, Felix Holt, de radikaal: een verhaal, uit het Engelsch vertaald door Mevr. van Westrheene. Sneek 1867.

d. A literal translation of the title Scenes of clerical life.