1. Andries Bonger wrote to his parents the day before: ‘Little Vincent is infinitely better. Net [Jo] doesn’t want to believe it, but we are sure it’s teeth’ (FR b1856).

2. On 6 July 1890, Camille Pissarro wrote that he hoped that Theo would be able to visit him in Eragny on 14 July, in the company of Vincent and Andries Bonger. This visit did not take place (Photocopy of this letter in Van Gogh Museum, Documentation).

3. René Valadon, Theo’s employer and the founder of Boussod, Valadon & Cie.

a. Read: ‘m’emmerdera’.

4. This most likely refers to Dog running in the grass (present whereabouts unknown, not in Wildenstein), sold on 5 July 1890 to Eugène Blot for 200 francs (Gauguin received 150 francs), and Oranges and lemons with view of Pont-Aven, 1889 (W401) (Baden, Stiftung Langmatt Sidney und Jenny Brown), sold on 30 April 1890 to Ernest Chausson for 300 francs. See GRI, Goupil Ledgers, nos. 20859 and 20648; Gauguin lettres 1983, p. 183; and exhib. cat. Amsterdam 1999, pp. 139, 212.

5. Theo had written to Pissarro on 5 July that he would send 500 francs ‘to be deducted from the deals that we will make, and we will do many, it’s a firm promise, if you’ll only be sure to take good care of yourself and of your eye’. (à valoir sur les affaires que nous ferons, et nous en ferons beaucoup, c’est dit et promis, si seulement vous voulez bien vous soigner et soigner votre oeil). See Jampoller 1986, p. 59 and Correspondance Pissarro 1980-1991, vol. 2, p. 354 (n. 1). For the Pissarro exhibition at Theo’s, see letter 858, n. 9. See also n. 2 above; regarding Pissarro’s eye complaint, see letter 799, n. 5.

6. The letter sketch Wheatfields (F - / JH 2039) in letter 896, after the painting of the same name F 775 / JH 2038 .

7. The painting Girl against a background of wheat (F 774 / JH 2053 ), after which Van Gogh made the letter sketch of the same name F - / JH 2054 in letter 896.