1. This painting of a cinder road, which was also mentioned in letter 256, is unknown.

2. Dunes (F 2a / JH 176 ).

3. Beach with fishing boats (F 2 / JH 173 ).

4. This painting of a potato field is unknown; the sketch enclosed with letter 255 gives an impression of the work.

a. Means: ‘Alles overziend’ (all things considered); cf. Van Gogh’s use of ‘Après tout’.

5. This painting of a figure study is unknown (for the subject, cf. Two women in a wood (F 1665 / JH 181). Besides this work and the four mentioned earlier in the letter, the stated total of seven painted studies included a painting of a row of pollard willows in a meadow and a painting of a cinder road (see letter 255).

6. For this Zevende tentoonstelling, see letter 256, n. 8.

7. For Anton Mauve, Spinner, see letter 256, n. 9.

8. For Jozef Israëls, The painter J.H. Weissenbruch , see letter 256, n. 17.

9. For J.H. Weissenbruch’s drawings, see letter 256, n. 16.

10. For this ‘city view’ by Jacob Maris, see letter 256, n. 20.

11. For Willem Maris, Sow with piglets, see letter 256, n. 19.

12. For the works of Willem Maris in which cows may be seen, see letter 256, n. 12.

13. For Neuhuys, see letter 256, n. 11.

14. For Van Rossum Du Chattel, see letter 25, n. 13.

15. For Mesdag’s drawings, among them Waterfall at Trolhetta (Norway) , see letter 256, n. 18.

16. Jozef Israëls, Denken en droomen (Thinking and dreaming), p. 10, cat. no. 47 (present whereabouts unknown).

17. Jozef Israëls, Kindervermaak (Children’s pleasures), p. 10, cat. no. 50 (present whereabouts unknown). There is also an etching of Kinderen bij het varkenskot (Children at the pig-sty) (Amsterdam, Rijksprentenkabinet). Ill. 195 .

18. Jozef Israëls, Een middagmaal (A midday meal), p. 10, cat. no. 48. Israëls painted four watercolours after his popular The frugal meal, 1876 (Glasgow, Glasgow Museums and Art Galleries), which was shown at the Salon of 1876. In fact, at 88.9 x 138.7 cm it was not particularly small. Cf. letter 211, n. 17. The print after it, Intérieur de village (Village interior), appeared in L’Art. Revue Hebdomadaire Illustrée 3-3 (1876), and in 1882 Eigen Haard also published an engraving of it (p. 71 and 76). Cf. Dekkers, 1993, pp. 76-78, cat. no. 2. For Israëls’s Mother Jopje in her dwelling in Kunstkronijk, see letter 256, n. 10.

b. Van Gogh may mean: ‘and must believe that it’s going well at the moment’.

19. For this quotation from Millet in Sensier, La vie et l’oeuvre de J.F. Millet, see letter 210, n. 5.

20. Van Gogh added the comparison ‘just like the farmer does his corn or hay’ later.

21. Van Gogh is evidently mistaken, because in letter 256 of Sunday, 13 August he said that he received Van Rappard’s letter the evening before.