1. Van Gogh and Roulin had last seen each other around Thursday, 4 April (see letter 754). Apparently he did not know of Van Gogh’s departure for Saint-Rémy; the letter must therefore have been forwarded from Arles.

a. Read: ‘quant à’.

2. Madame Roulin and the children were staying with her mother in Lambesc.

3. Most likely Antoine Bressy, railway employee, and his wife Madeleine Ferrary. They lived in the Quartier de la Cavalerie (ACA). Place Lamartine, on which the Yellow House and Ginoux’s café bordered, was also in this district.

4. Most likely the farmer Antoine Pelissier, who lived in avenue de Montmajour and was, like Roulin, a native of Lambesc (ACA).

b. Read: ‘qu’il le fasse’.

5. Regarding Roulin’s position in Marseille, see letter 736, n. 14.

6. Roulin lived with Joseph Delpal and his wife Julienne Bloyet (Archives Municipales de Marseille). Van Gogh made a note of her name (as ‘Madame Degal’) and address on letter 742.