1. This was letter 825.

2. For Lauzet’s Adolphe Monticelli, see letter 825, n. 7.

3. For Monticelli’s Vase of flowers , see letter 578, n. 4. Lauzet’s publication did not include a lithograph after this painting.

4. This second version was Women picking olives (F 656 / JH 1870 ). Cf. letter 827, n. 13. Van Gogh says later on (l. 19) that he intends to make two or three repetitions. In fact he made one more repetition – Women picking olives (F 655 / JH 1869 ) – for his mother and Willemien (see n. 12 below).

5. The first study, painted on the spot, is Women picking olives (F 654 / JH 1868 ). See letter 827, n. 13.

6. These ‘half-dozen’ studies consisted of Olive grove (F 707 / JH 1857 ), Olive trees (F 708 / JH 1855 ), Olive trees (F 710 / JH 1856 ), Olive grove with two olive pickers (F 587 / JH 1853 ), Olive grove (F 586 / JH 1854 ) and Women picking olives (F 654 / JH 1868 ).

7. Wheatfield at sunrise (F 737 / JH 1862 ).

8. Vincent sent both the first version, The bedroom (F 482 / JH 1608 ), and the repetition, The bedroom (F 484 / JH 1771 ); see letter 830, in which Theo confirms receipt of the consignment.

9. Vincent probably sent drawings because Theo had asked him if he also wanted to show his drawings at the exhibition of Les Vingt (see letter 825). It is not known which two drawings he sent, but possibilities include the Wheatfield at sunrise (F 1552 / JH 1863) and The garden of the asylum (F 1545 / JH 1851), according to Pickvance in exhib. cat. New York 1986, p. 56, and Herzogenrath and Hansen in exhib. cat. Bremen 2002, p. 96, cat. no. 25. There is, however, no indication whatsoever that these are the drawings in question.

10. For Daudet’s Tartarin de Tarascon and Tartarin sur les Alpes, see letter 583, n. 9. These novels are set in Provence.

11. This was Gauguin’s letter 828.

12. The version intended for Mrs van Gogh and Willemien was Women picking olives (F 655 / JH 1869 ). See letter 827, n. 13. They probably never received the work, because it is assumed that Jo van Gogh-Bonger sold it in 1895. See Account book 2002, p. 183.

13. Theo had written about Manet’s In the garden , which the brothers had seen at Portier’s. See letter 825, n. 2.

14. For Puvis de Chavannes’s Portrait of a man (Eugène Benon) and Portrait of a woman (Maria Cantacuzène) , see letter 655, n. 10.

15. For this passage from Michelet’s L’amour, see letter 655 and letter 27, n. 2.

16. Pine trees with setting sun (F 652 / JH 1843 ). See Hendriks and Van Tilborgh 2001, p. 155 (n. 87).