John Constable: Toward a Complete Chronology. - Reed College

1823 Nov 2 Letter from J.C. at Coleorton Hall to John Fisher in Salisbury:
"I have copied one of the small Claudes—a breezy sunset
[The Death of Procris, according to Leslie]—a most pathetic
and soothing picture. . . . Perhaps a sketch would have
answered my purpose, but I wished for a more lasting
rememberance of it and a sketch of a picture is only like
seeing it in one view. . . . I have likewise begun the little
Grove by Claude—a noon day scene. . . . I draw in the
evening." (JCC VI, pp. 142-43; see also JC: FDC, p. 147)
1823 Nov 5 Letter from J.C. in Leicestershire to Maria in London: "I have
a little Claude [Landscape with Goatherd and Goats] in hand,
a grove scene of great beauty and I wish to make a nice copy
from it to be usefull to me as long as I live. It contains almost
all that I wish to do in landscape." (JCC II, pp. 295-96 and JC:
FDC, p. 144)
1823 Nov 9 Note on Gainsborough. (JCD, p. 88)
1823 Nov 9 Letter from J.C. in Leicestershire to Maria in London: "I am
very fast advancing a beautifull little copy of [Claude's] study
from nature of a little grove scene. . . . I can hardly be able to
make you a sketch of the house but I shall bring much
(though in little compass) to shew you." (JCC II, pp. 296-98;
see also JCC IV, p. 265)
1823 Nov 10 Letter from Maria in London to J.C. at Leicestershire: "Mr.
Henry Dawe. . . wishes for one of your landscapes in the first
number [of engravings]." (JCC II, pp. 298-99)
1823 Nov 17 Letter from Maria in London to J.C. in Leicestershire. (JCC II,
p. 299; see also JCC I, p. 204)
1823 Nov 18 Sketch, Coleorton Hall, dated November 18. (JCC II, p. 301)
1823 Nov 18 Letter from J.C. in Leicestershire to Maria in London: "I shall
finish my little Claude on Thursday and then I shall have a
little job or two to do besides to some of Sir G's pictures,
that will take a day or two more and then home. . . . I had
been engaged on a little sketch in Miss Southey's album of
this house. . . . I amuse myself making sketches from Sir G's
drawings about Dedham." (JCC II, pp. 300-02)