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independent of Tinney's kind & friendly commissions." (JCC
VI, pp. 180-83; see also JCC II, p. 370)
1824 Nov 21 Letter (written in three installments) from John Fisher in Bath
- Dec 8 to J.C. in London: "Should you be afraid to send me by the
Bath Coach one of your new sketch books? We are sadly at a
loss for employment: and copying the leaves of your mind is
a great source of amusement to my wife. Do not trouble
yourself about the chairs." (JCC VI, pp. 183-84)
1824 Dec 3 Letter from J.C. in London to brother Golding in East
Bergholt: "Johnny has nothing particular to say—only that I
do not find it is his fault that Your map is not ready / but
Joe's /. He is very useful to me and is getting me forward in
my things he is so handy and obliging—that he will do any
thing he will copy any of my pictures beautifully or go of the
most trifling errand. . . . I have had with me this morning the
frenchman who bought my pictures—he gives a high acct of
the imprefsion they made in France that of Old Billy Lott's
house the nation would have purchased but he would not
divide them. he could often have sold them separately—he
has given me orders for some small ones." (JC: FDC, pp. 75-
76; see also JCC II, p. 371)
1824 Dec 4 Letter from Sir George Beaumont at Coleorton Hall to J.C. in
London. (JC: FDC, p. 149)
1824 Dec ca. 7 Letter from Samuel Reynolds, Sr., in London to J.C. in
London: "The colouring [of the Lock] is sweet, fresh, and
healthy; bright not gaudy, but deep and clear." (JCC IV, p.
266)
1824 Dec 13 Letter from William Brockedon in London to J.C. in London:
"[your pictures] have created a division in the school of
landscape painters in France." (JCC IV, pp. 264, 192)
1824 Dec 17 Letter from J.C. in London to John Fisher in Bath: "I should
not have hesitated a moment about sending you my Brighton
book—but . . . just at the time you wrote to me my
Frenchman was in London. We were settling about work and
he has engaged me to make twelve drawings (to be engraved
here, and published in Paris), all from this book, size of the
plates the same as the drawing, about 10 or 12 inches. I