1. Regarding the batch of paintings Gauguin sent to Theo from Pont-Aven, see letter 704, n. 1.

2. Paul Gauguin, Human miseries, 1888 (W317/W304) (Copenhagen, Ordrupgaard Sammlungen). Ill. 2242 .

3. For Gauguin’s Night café, Arles, see letter 716, n. 4. Van Gogh’s painting of the Café de la Gare is The night café (F 463 / JH 1575 ).

4. The Alyscamps (‘Leaf-fall’) (F 486 / JH 1620 ) and The Alyscamps (‘Leaf-fall’) (F 487 / JH 1621 ). Gauguin had written to Bernard that the canvases were hanging in his room; see letter 716.

5. The red vineyard (F 495 / JH 1626 ).

6. Marie Ginoux (‘The Arlésienne’) (F 489 / JH 1625 ). See exhib. cat. Chicago 2001, p. 186. Marie Ginoux, the wife of the cafe’s proprietor, posed for this portrait.

7. Regarding this coarse jute, see letter 716, n. 8.

8. Theo had sent two photographs of drawings by De Haan; see letter 708.

9. It had been agreed that Theo would send 300 francs a month (150 francs for each), in three 100-franc instalments. It is most likely that Theo reverted to the system that he and Vincent had used earlier for three monthly payments (starting in June 1882; see letter 234). This meant that Vincent usually received his allowance in instalments arriving around the 1st, 11th and 21st of every month, though sometimes a payment was deferred. Theo thus sent money three times a month in November and December 1888. See also Dorn 1990, p. 479.

10. The Alyscamps (‘Leaf-fall’) (F 487 / JH 1621 ). The location described by Van Gogh is the Roman burial ground Les Alyscamps (the Elysian Fields or Champs-Elysées), to the south-east of Arles.

11. The Alyscamps (‘Leaf-fall’) (F 486 / JH 1620 ).

12. De Haan and Isaäcson.