John Constable: Toward a Complete Chronology. - Reed College

1826 June 6 Note from Sir Digby Neave in London to J.C. in London. (JCC
V, p. 56)
1826 June 8 Letter from William Ward in London to J.C. in London. (JC:
FDC, p. 307)
1826 July 1 Letter from John Fisher in Salisbury to J.C. in London: "The
two pictures arrived safe on Friday . . . the white horse
looking very placid. . . . It is wonderfully improved by
Dunthorne's coat of varnish. The Cathedral looks splendidly
over the chimney peice. . . . Its internal splendour comes out
in all its power, the spire sails away with the thunder-clouds."
(JCC VI, pp. 221-22)
1826 July 7 Letter from J.C. in London to John Fisher: "You will receive
Dunthorne's Wilsons to-morrow. . . . I have made several
visits to the terrace at Lord Pembroke's; it was the spot of all
others to which I wanted to have access. I have added two
feet to my canvas." (JCC VI, pp. 222-23; see also JCC II, p.
431 and JC: FDC, p. 323)
1826 July 13 Letter from Claude Schroth in Paris to J.C. in London, saying
there would be no more commissions for J.C. because of
Schroth's poor financial state. (JCC IV, pp. 207-08; see also
JCC II, p. 431 and JC: FDC, p. 330)
1826 July Painting, WiIliamstown, Strand, recorded as a painting of July
1826, may have been a sketch. (JCC II, p. 436)
1826 Aug ca. 25 Goes to Brighton to bring son John Charles to London. (JCC
II, p. 433)
1826 Aug 31 Takes son John Charles back to Brighton. (JCC V, p. 119)
1826 Sept 1 See 1826 Sept 8-9
1826 Sept 1 Letter from J.C. in Brighton to Maria in Hampstead: "Perhaps I
may come up on Friday, but I am not certain." (JCC II, p. 433;
see also JCC V, p. 119)
1826 Sept 8-9 Earliest extant letter to Leslie from J.C., apparently dated 1
September, but Beckett believes this is likely a slip for the
8th or 9th as the lst is clearly a mistake; J.C. says he has