1. Orchard in blossom with a view of Arles (F 516 / JH 1685 ).

2. Trees with ivy in the garden of the asylum (F 609 / JH 1693 ).

3. Lilacs (F 579 / JH 1692 ).

4. Avenue of chestnut trees in blossom (F 517 / JH 1689 ).

5. The green vineyard (F 475 / JH 1595 ) and The red vineyard (F 495 / JH 1626 ).

6. Probably The public garden (‘The poet’s garden’) (F 468 / JH 1578 ), which Van Gogh viewed as a pendant to Avenue of chestnut trees in blossom (F 517 / JH 1689 ). See letter 767, n. 7.

7. The harvest (F 412 / JH 1440 ).

8. Starry night over the Rhône (F 474 / JH 1592 ).

9. Irises (F 608 / JH 1691 ).

10. The garden of the asylum (F 734 / JH 1698 ).

11. La Crau with peach trees in blossom (F 514 / JH 1681 ). Its size – 65.5 x 81.5 cm – means that it is a no. 25 canvas.

12. Field with flowers under a stormy sky (F 575 / JH 1422 ). It measures 59.5 x 70 cm (slightly smaller than a no. 20 canvas).

13. This was presumably Olive trees (F 714 / JH 1858 ), measuring 51.1 x 65.4 cm (no. 15 canvas). Specifying that the first two works are ‘no. 30 canvases’ implies that the others are smaller, so he cannot be referring to the three olive groves on no. 30 canvases (F 585 , F 712 and F 715 ).

14. Road with pollard willows (F 520 / JH 1690 ), measuring 55 x 65 cm (no. 15 canvas).

15. Orchard in blossom with a view of Arles (F 515 / JH 1683 ), measuring 50.5 x 65 cm (no. 15 canvas).

16. This was possibly Charles-Elzéard Trabuc, the chief orderly who posed for Van Gogh two months later (letter 800).

17. Regarding Van Gogh’s neighbours at Arles, see letter 744, n. 6.

18. Thérèse Balmoissière.

19. A letter from Rey to Theo of 30 December 1888 reveals that he had to defend his doctoral thesis in Paris. See letter 736, n. 15.

20. Théophile Peyron.

21. This is the order placed in letter 783.

22. The Alpilles with a hut (F 622 / JH 1766 ).

23. Various Millets were sold at the Secrétan auction: the paintings The angelus (no. 63) and Returning from the fountain (no. 64), and the pastels Peasant watering two cows (no. 100) and The shepherdess (no. 101). They sold for 553,000 francs (to the State), 20,600, 26,000 and 25,200, respectively (see ‘Resumé du catalogue’). See auct. cat. Paris 1889 (Lugt 1938-1987, no. 48407). Cf. also letter 785, n. 8.

24. Reaper (F 617 / JH 1753 ).