1. On Sunday, 7 July 1889 Van Gogh undertook a supervised journey to Arles (see letters 787 and 789). It is not known which book he ordered.

2. The bookshop owned by Anaïs Jauffret, 12 rue de la Poissonnerie, was taken over in 1889 by Marie Henriette Pauline Lamblot-Gaudin.