1. On Tuesday, 31 March 1885, Mrs van Gogh put a death notice in the paper, announcing the passing of her ‘dearly beloved Husband’ Theodorus van Gogh on 26 March. See Het Nieuws van den Dag, 31 March 1885, page 2.

2. The death announcement sent to family and friends.

3. Van Gogh had sent Van Rappard an impression of the lithograph The potato eaters (F 1661 / JH 737 ); see letter 514).

4. This letter is not known.