1. For Weissenbruch’s habit of working elsewhere from time to time, see letter 370, n. 5.

2. These two studies of a man on a muddy road are not known.

3. This painted study of the silhouette of a city as the sun sets is not known.

4. This painted study of a towpath with windmills is not known.

5. Van Gogh may be referring to the painted study which he says in a letter of 25 September 1882 he sent to Theo; see letter 269, n. 2. At this point he may have been working on Edge of a wood (F 903 / JH 12 ) or a similar piece. See cat. Otterlo 2003, p. 39.

6. This story about a painter has not been traced.

7. The words ‘and duty’ (‘en pligt’) were added later.

8. Van Gogh obtained this information about Guillaume Régamey from the article ‘L’exposition des oeuvres de Guillaume Régamey’ by a certain L.F. in Le Monde Illustré; see letter 325, n. 18.