1. This was letter 867. For the portrait photograph, see n. 12 to that letter.

a. Meaning ‘even supposing’.

2. Van Gogh had written this in letter 805 of about Friday, 20 September 1889.

3. Van Gogh finally left Saint-Rémy on 16 May and arrived in Paris on Saturday, 17 May.

4. The garden of the asylum with dandelions and tree-trunks (F 676 / JH 1970 ), after which Van Gogh made the letter sketch of the same name F - / JH 1971, and Meadow in the garden of the asylum (F 672 / JH 1975 ).