John Constable: Toward a Complete Chronology. - Reed College

1831 Dec 29 Letter from J.C. in Hampstead to Leslie in London: "I have
been painting & tomorrow I hope to get Mr. Well's marble
[the picture by Grueze] out of the house." (JCC III, p. 55; see
also JCC V, p. 135 and JCC IV, p. 281)
1831 Dec 31 J.C. too ill to attend council dinner. (JC: FDC, p. 287)
1831 Inscription "John Constable 1831" in Sir Walter Scott's
Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft. (JC: FDC, p. 43)
1831 after Undated note from Leslie to J.C., with a watermark of 1831:
"Thank you for the Bourdon." (JC: FDC, p. 237)
1831 or 1833 Instructions for retouching Summer Morning. (JCC IV, p. 454)
1831 prob. Note from Richard Westall in London to J.C., undated, on
paper watermarked 1829. (JC: FDC, p. 311)
1832 Jan 7 Letter from Martin Shee in London to J.C. in London: "We all
very much regretted your absence on the 31 Ulti." (JC: FDC,
pp. 287-88)
1832 Jan 9 Letter from Martin Shee in London to J.C.: "I wrote in a tone
of levity but ill in accordance with your state of suffering."
(JCC IV, pp. 284-85; see also JC: FDC, p. 287)
1832 Jan before 11 Letter from J.C. at Hampstead to Leslie in London: "We
intend reaching Charlotte Street . . . about Thursday. . . . I am
not sorry to have missed the Visitorship in the life this year—
& next year I am ineligible." (JCC III, p. 57)
1832 Jan Brother Abram visits J.C. in London. (JCC I, p. 268)
before 14
1832 Jan 14 Letter from J.C. in London to Leslie at Petworth. J.C. was so
ill that he was unable to write and had to dictate his letter: "I
hope the worst is now over. . . . Amongst [Turner's early
pictures at Petworth] . . . was one of singular intricacy and
beauty, it was a canal with numerous boats, making
thousands of beautiful shapes, and I think the most complete
work of genius I ever saw." (JCC III, pp. 57-59; see also JCC I,
p. 268 and JCD, pp. 54, 64)