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John Constable: Toward a Complete Chronology. - Reed College

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Martin's edition of Gray's Elegy written in a Country<br />

Churchyard: "What beautiful silvery clouds are rolling about<br />

today!!! . . . Tuesday . . . is the day . . . I must take my poor<br />

boys to Folkestone. . . . I had a delightful visit into Suffolk."<br />

(JCC III, pp. 104-06; see also JCC IV, p. 146 and JCC V, pp.<br />

90, 165)<br />

1833 Aug Letter from David Lucas in London to J.C. in London. (JCC IV,<br />

before 19 pp. 401-02)<br />

1833 Aug 19 Receipt from J.C. to General Rebow. (JCC IV, p. 402)<br />

1833 Aug 19 Beckett notes that J.C. is seen by Dr. William Crotch in or<br />

near Colchester; however, Dr. Crotch's Memoirs record that<br />

he saw J.C. in London on the 19th August. (JC: FDC, p. 153;<br />

see also JCC I, p. 276)<br />

1833 Aug 20 Takes sons <strong>John</strong> Charles and Charles Golding to school at<br />

Folkestone, stays for three or four days. (JC: FDC, p. 83,<br />

153)<br />

1833 Aug 30 Draft of a letter from J.C. in London to M. Jolly in Brussels:<br />

"Being happy [to exhibit with you]. . ., I have this morning<br />

sent a Picture by the Ostend Steam Packet entitled 'A barge<br />

pafsing a Lock.'" (JC: FDC, p. 327)<br />

1833 Aug 30 Note from J.C. in London to M. Jolly in Brussels,<br />

accompanying "A Barge pafsing a Lock." (JC: FDC, p. 328)<br />

1833 Sept 1 Letter from J.C. in Hampstead to son <strong>John</strong> Charles at<br />

Folkestone: "I went to town with [Mifs <strong>John</strong>son] the other<br />

day. she persuaded me to Accept the Invitation to exhibit at<br />

Bruxelles the Lock looked beautifully fresh when it was<br />

varnished. . . . I am getting comfortably to work here and<br />

bonner is to stay a week to help me write & compose from a<br />

recollection of my lecture." (JC: FDC, pp. 84-85, 171, 328)<br />

1833 Sept ca. 1 Apparently in September 1833, J.C. begins abstract of<br />

lecture given 11 June 1833 at Hampstead. (JC: FDC, p. 7)<br />

1833 Sept 6 Document binding Ambrose Wright, an upholsterer of Grafton<br />

Street, on a penal sum of £200, to repay J.C. a loan of £100<br />

plus £5 interest by September 1834. (JC: FDC, p. 84)

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