1. Garden with flowers (F 429 / JH 1513 ).

2. Van Gogh added the sentence ‘Echter ... zaagt’ (However ... see it) later.

3. This was Joseph Roulin (F 432 / JH 1522 ). For the comparison of Roulin with Socrates see letter 652, n. 7.

4. Marcelle, Joseph and Augustine Roulin’s daughter, was born on Tuesday, 31 July 1888.

5. Mousmé (F 431 / JH 1519 ).

6. Newly mown lawn with a weeping tree (F 428 / JH 1499 ).

7. Zouave (F 423 / JH 1486 ).

8. See for Gauguin’s Among the mangoes : letter 612, n. 1.

9. See letter 590, n. 7, for Loti’s Le mariage de Loti. The trees Van Gogh mentions here all occur repeatedly in this novel about the island of Tahiti (Otaheite).

10. See letter 623, n. 3, for Gauguin’s stay on Martinique.

11. For Gauguin’s On the shore of the lake, Martinique , which Van Gogh exchanged for Sunflowers gone to seed (F 375 / JH 1329 ) and Sunflowers gone to seed (F 376 / JH 1331 ), see letter 576, n. 2.

12. Bouches-du-Rhône.

13. See letter 626, nn. 9-11, for these prints and books that were left behind in the Netherlands.