John Constable: Toward a Complete Chronology. - Reed College

1823 Dec 16 Letter from J.C. in London to John Fisher in Salisbury: "I am
settled, for the Exhibition. My Waterloo must be done, and
one other, perhaps one of Tinney's, Dedham, but more
probably my Lock. I must visit Gillingham again for a subject
for the other next summer. . . . I have a note to dine at the
Charter House Saturday. . . . I dread the job, of the Grand
Master, & shall not forward it myself [but] leave it to fate. He
is a delightfull subject, after all." (JCC VI, pp. 145-48; see
also JCC II, p. 306 and JC: FDC, pp. 147, 253)
1823 Dec 29 Letter from Bishop Fisher in Salisbury to J.C. in London. (JCC
VI, p. 148)
1823 Publication of Peter Coxe's long poem, The Social Day, begun
in 1814, in which J.C.'s drawing of the windmill, engraved on
steel by John Landseer, A.R.A., appeared. (JCC II, p. 116; see
also JCC I, p. 102 and JC: FDC, p. 40)
1824 Sends Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Grounds for
beg. of year exhibition at British Institution. (JCC II, p. 307)
1824 beg. of Jan Letter from J.C. in London to Sir George Beaumont,
mentioning attending the December gathering of the Royal
Academy. (JCC II, p. 306)
1824 Jan 6 Letter from Bishop Fisher in Salisbury to J.C. in London:
"Dorothea flatters herself that you will allow her to study one
of your new Claudes." (JCC VI, p. 148)
1824 Jan 6 Letter from Sir George Beaumont at Coleorton Hall to J.C. in
London. (JC: FDC, pp. 147-48)
1824 Jan 17 Letter from J.C. in London to John Fisher in Weymouth: "The
Frenchman [Arrowsmith] who was after my large picture of
[the] Hay Cart, last year, is now here about it again--he would
I beleive I have both that and the bridge if he could get them
at his own price. . . . I want to see the picture of the
Cathedral belonging to Mr. Mirehouse in a frame, in order to
[?tone] it. . . . I shall not send the picture ot Tinney's to the
Institution. . . . I have sent the Bishops Cathedral to the
Gallery and no other. . . . I have just completed my little
Waterloo Bridge. It looks very well indeed—I should like your
advice about the large Waterloo—it is a work that should not