John Constable: Toward a Complete Chronology. - Reed College

1826 Feb 28 Note from William Redmore Bigg to J.C. (JC: FDC, p. 182)
1826 March 1 Letter from botanist friend Henry Phillips to J.C. in London,
advising him on the appropriate wildflowers and other
growths to introduce into the foreground of The Cornfield: "I
think it is July in your green lane." (JCC V, p. 80; see also JCC
II, p. 425)
1826 early April Sends Gillingham Mill, as well as The Cornfield to Royal
Academy fro exhibition. (JCC II, p. 426; see also JCC I, p.
223)
1826 April 8 Letter from J.C. in London to John Fisher: "I have dispatched
a large landscape to the Academy—upright, the size of my
Lock—but a subject of a very different nature—inland—
cornfields—a close lane, kind of thing—but it is not neglected
in any part. The trees are more than usually studied and the
extremities well defined—as well as their species—they are
more shaken by a pleasant and healthfull breeze—'at noon'—
'while now a fresher gale, sweeping with shadowy gust the
feilds of corn' &c, &c. . . . My picture occupied me wholly—I
could think of and speak to no one. . . . Mirehouse threatens
me with having to paint his portrait." (JCC VI, pp. 216-18;
see also JCC V, p. 118 and JCC II, pp. 425-26)
1826 April 11 Letter from sister Mary in Flatford to J.C. in London: "Abram.
. . is very ill. . . . it would be a satisfaction to us if you would
run down." (JCC I, p. 223; see also JCC II, p. 426)
1826 April 12 To Suffolk, returning to London on the 16th. "Leslie prints
the note to Samuel Lane in which these dates are mentioned;
but the date which he gives for the letter, 15 April, had
obviously been misread." (JCC I, p. 223; see also JCC II, p.
426)
1826 April 15 See 1826 April 16
1826 April 16 Returns to London, when Abram's health seemed to improve.
(JCC I, p. 223; see also JCC II, p. 426)
1826 April 16 Letter from J.C. in London to Samuel Lane in London: "I am
just returned from Suffolk. I left London by the mail of