John Constable: Toward a Complete Chronology. - Reed College

1833 Feb 15 Letter from brother Abram in Flatford to J.C.: "glad you are
going on so well with your Pictures for next Exhibition . . . I
think your House Picture will be beautiful." [A Cottage in a
Cornfield and A Heath were to accompany the house picture
to Somerset House.]. (JCC I, pp. 272-74; see also JCC IV, pp.
78, 110 and JCC V, p. 143)
1833 Feb 28 Letter from J.C. in London to David Lucas in London. (JCC IV,
p. 393)
1833 prob., prob. Feb. Draft of letter from J.C. to Headmaster the Rev.
Thomas Pearce in Folkestone. (JCC V, p. 143)
1833 March 2 List of published plates. (JCC IV, p. 393)
1833 March 2 Letter from J.C. in London to Leslie in London: "I told [Mr.
Wells] . . . . I looked on pictures as things to be avoided . . .
what a sad thing it is that . . . art—is . . . only used to blind
our eyes and senses from seeing the sun shine, the feilds
bloom, the trees blossom, & to hear the foliage rustle—and
old black rubbed-out dirty bits of canvas, to take the place of
God's own works." (JCC III, pp. 94-95)
1833 March ca. 2 Note from J.C. in London to David Lucas in London. (JCC IV,
p. 393)
1833 March 3 Directs David Lucas to bring " a nice French proof or two" of
the frontispiece, to go to John Martin. (JCC V, p. 90)
1833 March 4 Two proofs of etchings inscribed as presented by J.C. to John
Sheepshanks. (JCC IV, p. 118; see also JC: FDC, p. 133)
1833 March Letter from John Sheepshanks in London to J.C. (JC: FDC, pp.
possibly, 133-34)
shortly after 4
1833 Mar 6 Letter from J.C. to son Charles in Folkestone: " I cannot leave
home till my pictures are gone to the Academy, but I long to
see you at Folkestone. . . . I have almost done the house
picture, and I shall try at the Wood, to get it also ready."
(JCC V, pp. 145-46)