1. Theo had written: ‘as for the future, I can give you little hope’ (letter 363, l. 5).

2. These are three photographs of the drawings Peat diggers in the dunes (F 1031 / JH 363 ), Potato grubbers (F 1034 / JH 372 ) and Sower (F 1035 / JH 374 ): see letter 362, n. 7.

a. Means: ‘een aanhoudende koorts die het gestel langzaam ondermijnt’ (a persistent fever that slowly undermines the constitution).

3. This letter was 363.