John Constable: Toward a Complete Chronology. - Reed College

1823 May 9 Letter from J.C. in London to John Fisher: "I had many
interruptions to my works for the Exhibition . . . so that I
have no large canvas there. My Cathedral looks very well. . . .
It is much approved by the Academy and moreover in
Seymour St. though I was at one time fearfull it would not be
a favourite there owing to a dark cloud. . . . It was the most
difficult subject in landscape I ever had upon my easil. I have
not flinched at the work, of the windows, buttresses, &c, &c,
but I have as usual made my escape in the evanescence of
the chiaroscuro. . . . It is my wish to come to see you at
Gillingham. I want to do something at that famous Mill, a mile
or two off. . . . I am now busy both in portrait & landscape. . .
. I have a face now on my easil and my have some more. This
is a great chubby boy. . . . I went to the gallery of Sir John
Leicester to see the English artists. I recollect nothing so
much as a solemn—bright—warm—fresh—landscape by
Wilson." (JCC VI, pp. 115-17; see also JCC II, p. 280, JCD, p.
66 and JCC IV, p. 237)
1823 May 9 Letter from John Fisher in Gillingham to J.C. in London. (JCC
VI, pp. 117-118)
1823 May 10 Letter from John Fisher in Gillingham to J.C. in London. (JCC
VI, pp. 118-119)
1823 May 15 Note from Dr. Baillie in London to J.C. in London, thanking
him for an engraving from one of J.C.'s works, given him in
return for attendance on his children. (JCC II, p. 280)
1823 May 19 Letter from Joseph Bonomi in Rome to J.C. in London. (JC:
FDC, p. 184)
1823 May 20 Drawing of Natley Abbey, "said to be dated 20th May, 1823,
is unlikely to have been done on the spot." (JCC II, p. 280)
1823 late May Sends family to summer residence in Hampstead at Stamford
- early June Lodge. (JCC II, p. 280)
1823 June 21 Drawing, a study of an ash tree at Hampstead. (JCC II, p.
280)
1823 June 26 Drawing at Hampstead of the view from East Heath over
London. (JCC II, p. 280)