John Constable: Toward a Complete Chronology. - Reed College

1826 Nov 20 Letter from J.C. in London to brother Golding in East
Bergholt: "we are in a nice little house at Hampstead. . . .
J.D. quite well industrious—clever—& happy." (JC: FDC, pp.
78-79)
1826 Nov 28 Letter from J.C. in London to John Fisher: "I passed the
evening with Northcote. . . . I have seen an affecting picture
this morning, by Ruisdael. It haunts my mind and clings to my
heart. . . . It is a watermill, not unlike 'Perne's Mill'—a man &
boy are cutting rushes in the running stream. . . . I have
published my proposals for a print of Dr. Wingfield." (JCC VI,
p. 227; see also JC: FDC, pp. 28, 141, JCC IV, p. 238, JCD, p.
63 and JCC II, pp. 435-36)
1826 or 1827 Letter from J.C. to Leslie [said to have been written about
ca. Nov. November, 1827], including a printed price-list, "which he
said was the first of his manuscripts to appear in print . . .
however . . . one known copy of the price list is dated 1826,
so the letter may have been written a year earlier." (JCC III, p.
10)
1826 Dec 12 Autograph receipt signed in Charlotte Street "for £35 for a
Cottage Scene, which Constable had painted for his
correspondent." (JCD, p. 97)
1826 Dec 14 Letter from Samuel Rogers in Brighton to J.C. in London. (JC:
FDC, p. 167)
1826 Dec 23 Letter from J.C. in London to sister Ann in East Bergholt,
delivered by Dunthorne, Jr. on his way home for a holiday: "I
have just left Hampstead this morning. . . . I should be glad to
go with him [Golding] to Ham as perhaps Lady Dysart will not
go to Helmingham." (JCC I, p. 231; see also JCC II, p. 436 and
JCC IV, p. 69)
1826 Dec 23 Letter from J.C. in Hampstead to Leslie in London. (JCC III, p.
9; see also JCC II, p. 436)
1826 poss. Note from Lady Dysart to J.C., the paper showing a
watermark of 1826. (JC: FDC, p. 137)
1826 Two etchings from earlier drawings, Netley Abbey and Milford
Bridge. (JCC II, p. 436)