Van Gogh says that Van Rappard ‘will be staying for another week’
(ll. 6-7). Since it seems that he left on Saturday, 1 November 1884, we have dated the letter on or about Saturday, 25 October 1884. This must therefore be the letter to which Mrs van Gogh was referring in her letter to Theo of Monday, 27 October 1884, when she said that Vincent had written to him recently. (FR b2260)