1. As emerges from letter 838, this consignment also contained a drawing: Fountain in the garden of the asylum (F 1531 / JH 1705 ).

2. Ploughed field with a man carrying a bundle of straw (F 641 / JH 1795 ).

3. Van Gogh is referring to Reaper (F 617 / JH 1753 ) and the repetition Reaper (F 618 / JH 1773 ), which he had sent to Theo at the end of September (see letter 805).

4. The work sent was Ravine (F 662 / JH 1804 ).

5. The painting that still had to dry was Ravine (F 661 / JH 1871 ).

6. The Alpilles with a hut (F 622 / JH 1766 ) was already at Theo’s; regarding the consignment, see letter 805.

7. The painting for Mrs van Gogh and Willemien was Women picking olives (F 655 / JH 1869 ). See letter 827, n. 13.

8. This repetition is Women picking olives (F 656 / JH 1870 ).

9. The first study, painted on the spot, is Women picking olives (F 654 / JH 1868 ).

10. Wheatfields with a tree and mountains (F 721 / JH 1864 ).

11. Olive grove (F 586 / JH 1854 ).

12. Olive grove with two olive pickers (F 587 / JH 1853 ).

13. These two paintings are Olive grove (F 707 / JH 1857 ) and Olive trees (F 708 / JH 1855 ).

14. The study from nature is Road menders (‘The tall plane trees’) (F 657 / JH 1860 ). See letter 824, n. 13. The street was called Cours Est (now boulevard Mirabeau).

15. The repetition is Road menders (‘The tall plane trees’) (F 658 / JH 1861 ); this version was executed less hastily and more of the depiction has been worked out in detail.

16. Diggers (after Millet) (F 648 / JH 1833 ). For the print, see letter 805, n. 7.

17. Evening (after Millet) (F 647 /JH 1834 ). For the print, La veillée (The evening), see letters 805, n. 10 and 37, n. 16.

18. Rain (F 650 / JH 1839 ).

19. This was letter 830.

20. Daniel Urrabieta Vierge had illustrated all nineteen volumes of Michelet’s Histoire de France (1876-1878). One example is the print engraved by Clément Edouard Bellenger: ‘Il fit égorger un frère de Bernard et jeter sa soeur dans la Saône’ (He had a brother of Bernard strangled and his sister thrown in the Saône). Ill. 1395 . See J. Michelet, Histoire de France. Nouvelle édition, revue et augmentée. Avec illustrations par Vierge. Tome deuxième. Paris 1876, between pp. 12-13.

21. The lithographs and etchings of Adolphe Hervier portray, often by way of caricature, the daily life of Parisians and peasant folk alike. The Album Hervier, published in 1888, contained 43 plates drawn and etched between 1840 and 1860.

22. For Kugler’s Geschichte Friedrichs des Großen, with illustrations by Menzel, see letter 133, n. 19.

23. In 1881 Daniel Urrabieta Vierge had a stroke, after which he could not speak, draw or paint for two years. Nothing has been found about his supposed stay in the lunatic asylum of Charenton. Cf. Jules de Marthold, Daniel de Vierge. Sa vie, son oeuvre. Paris 1906.

24. This beach scene has not been traced.

25. For Doré’s Sea bathing , see letter 267, n. 35.