John Constable: Toward a Complete Chronology. - Reed College

1831 Dec 6 Payment to David Lucas. (JCC IV, p. 362)
1831 after Dec 6 Note on sums paid to Lucas. (JCC IV, p. 451)
1831 Dec 10 Probably attends annual General Assembly of Academicians.
(JCC III 1965, p. 52)
1831 Dec 10-17 At Hampstead. (JCC III 1965, p. 52)
1831 Letter from J.C., possibly in Hampstead, to Dominic Colnaghi.
poss. mid-Dec (JC: FDC, p. 170)
1831 Dec 16 Letter from sister Martha Whalley in Dedham to J.C. (JCC I,
p. 266)
1831 Dec 17 Letter from J.C. in Hampstead to Leslie in London: "I have not
been in London since we parted last at the Academy. . . . My
sad ill has a good deal returned . . . my left side & arm
prevented me from work." (JCC III, pp. 52-53; see also JCC
IV, pp. 362-63)
1831 Dec 19 Fragment of a letter from J.C in Hampstead to sister Martha
Whalley in Dedham, on the back of a drawing of a stormy
landscape. (JC: FDC, p. 83)
1831 Dec ca. 25 Fragment of letter from sister Mary at East Bergholt to J.C.
Undated "but seems to have been written after Daniel
Whalley had come home for Christmas." (JCC I, p. 267)
1831 Dec 26 Engraving begun of a plate of Hadleigh Castle, often called
The Nore by J.C., done from a large painting exhibited in
1829. (JCC IV, p. 363)
1831 Dec 26 Letter from J.C. in London to David Lucas in London,
including a sketch of an outline of The Nore with instructions
for its division. (JCC IV, p. 363)
1831 Dec 26-1832 Ill with rheumatism in Hampstead. (JCC IV, p. 363)
mid-Jan
1831 Dec 28 Letter from J.C. in Hampstead to Leslie. (JCC III, p. 54; see
also JCC V, p. 135)