1. This was letter 835.

a. Read: ‘continuasses’.

b. Read: ‘ouï-dire’.

2. This is the paint and canvas Vincent requested in letter 829. For the payments made by Theo to Tasset (in January it was 191 francs), see the Account book 2002, pp. 44-45.

3. Evening (after Millet) (F 647 /JH 1834 ).

4. Ravine (F 662 / JH 1804 ).

5. Road menders (‘The tall plane trees’) (F 657 / JH 1860 ).

6. Fountain in the garden of the asylum (F 1531 / JH 1705 ). According to Jo van Gogh-Bonger, Theo was extremely fond of this drawing and thought it the most beautiful of the entire collection. Letter to Octave Maus, 7 February 1891. Quoted in cat. Amsterdam 2007, p. 204, n. 17.

7. Regarding the problems Vincent ran up against when trying to paint out of doors in Paris, see letter 594, n. 12.