John Constable: Toward a Complete Chronology. - Reed College

1830 April 2 Letter from J.C. to James Carpenter in London: "I request
you to decline the picture I am now about." (JCC IV, p. 142)
1830 April 5 Payment to David Lucas. (JCC IV, p. 327)
1830 April 7 List of exhibits submitted by J.C. to Henry Howard, Secretary
of the Royal Academy, includes as his second picture A
Heath, but probably not the one promised to William
Carpenter. Other pictures include Dell Scene, later known as
Helmingham Dell, an unspecified landscape later known as The
Wood, and Landscape, a study, later known asWatermeadows
near Salisbury .Water-meadows near Salisbury is
rejected. (JC: FDC, p. 221 and JCC III, p. 26, JCC IV, pp. 142,
249)
1830 April 7 Letter from Charles Rossi in London to J.C. (JC: FDC, pp.
283-84)
1830 April Letter from J.C. to James Carpenter in London: "The first
soon after 7 number of my work is almost ready." (JCC IV, p. 143)
1830 April 14 Letter from Wilkie in London to J.C. (JC: FDC, p. 316)
1830 April 30 Letter from J.C. in London to David Lucas in London: "This
week will finish my business at the Academy—when I hope we
shall resume our joint labours on the plates." (JCC IV, p. 327)
1830 April Constable becomes a member of the Committee of
Arrangement for the exhibition at the Royal Academy. (JCC
III, p. 27; see also JC: FDC, pp. 310, 316 and JCC IV, pp. 283,
327)
1830 April Letter from J.C. to Henry Pickersgill (undated but "evidently
written in April 1830") in London. (JCC IV, p. 283)
1830 April Letter from J.C. to Leslie in London: "My picture [for the
Royal Academy] was and is plaguing me exceedingly." (JCC III,
pp. 27-28)
1830 April Note from Gilbert S. Newton in London to J.C. in Hampstead,
or Aug. poss. undated. (JC: FDC, p. 263)