John Constable: Toward a Complete Chronology. - Reed College

1834 July 12 Excursion from Arundel to Houghton, with halts for sketching.
(JCC V, p. 17)
1834 July 14 Excursion from Arundel to Petworth with halts for sketching.
J.C. meets Earl of Egremont, a great patron of art, who
watches J.C. sketch and invites him to stay several days with
him. J.C. declines for the present. (JCC V, pp. 17-18)
1834 mid-July Excursion from Arundel to Bognor, with halts for sketching.
(JCC V, p. 17)
1834 July 16 Letter from J.C. at Arundel in Sussex to Leslie in London,
including a sketch of an old barn: "The Castle is the cheif
ornament of this place, but all here sinks to insignifigance in
comparison with the woods, and hills. . . . I never saw such
beauty in natural landscape. before. I wish it may influence
what I may do in the future. . . . we have been to Petworth."
(JCC III, pp. 111-12; see also JCC V, pp. 17-18, 176)
1834 July Works on Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows for an
soon after 16 exhibition in Birmingham. (JCC III 1964, p. 112)
1834 July 18 Letter from William Brockedon in London to J.C. (JC: FDC, p.
186)
1834 July 20 Letter from Alaric A. Watts in London to J.C. in London. (JC:
FDC, p. 169)
1834 July 29 Letter from J.C. to William Purton: "I have done wonders with
my great Salisbury—I have been preparing it for Birmingham,
and I am sure I have much increased its power and effect— I
do hope you will say so." (JCC V, p. 42)
1834 Aug 2 Note from J.C. in London addressed to John Carpenter Esq.,
in Bond Street, but probably meant for James Carpenter: "I
have 'got up' my large Cathedral, for the exhibition at
Birmingham for which [it] leaves me tomorrow. . . . a little
time ago . . . I was . . . at Arundel. . . . I also visited
Petworth." (JCC IV, p. 147)
1834 Aug 4 Letter from J.C. in London to Leslie in London. The date,
which is obscure, seems to be the 4th August. Leslie gives