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John Constable: Toward a Complete Chronology. - Reed College

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1835 March 14 Note from Samuel Woodburn to J.C.: "Can you spare me a<br />

ticket for . . . the Institution on Monday Evening." (JC: FDC, p.<br />

173)<br />

1835 March 24 Letter from Algernon Grey Tollemache at Ham House to J.C.<br />

(JCC IV, p. 80)<br />

1835 Letter from J.C. in London to Leslie in London: "I was in<br />

end of March Suffolk Street on Saturday. . . . A Council at the R.A. on<br />

Tuesday-next." (JCC III, pp. 124-25)<br />

1835 March Letter from J.C. to Leslie in London: "Mr. [Robert] Vernon<br />

came . . . he saw it [the Valley Farm] free from the mustiness<br />

of old pictures." (JCC III, pp. 123-24; see also JCC V, p. 180<br />

and JCC IV, p. 121)<br />

1835 April 2 Letter from W.B. Clarke in Stanley Green, Dorset to J.C.:<br />

"When I last had the pleasure of seeing you at Flatford, (I<br />

think it was in the year 1830 or 1829) you made me an offer<br />

of the copy of the engraving of the view of Dunmail Raise in<br />

Cumberland." (JCC I, p. 288)<br />

1835 April 8 Letter from J.C. to George <strong>Constable</strong> in Arundel: "I have got<br />

my picture into a very beautifull state. I have kept my<br />

brightness without my spottiness, and I have preserved God<br />

Almighty's daylight." (JCC V, p. 20)<br />

1835 April 13 Letter from W.E. Bickmore in London to J.C. (JCC V, p. 181)<br />

1835 April 16 Letter from Algernon Grey Tollemache at Ham House to J.C.<br />

(JCC IV, p. 80)<br />

1835 April Robert Vernon buysThe Valley Farm off the easel for a price<br />

before 23 higher than J.C. had yet received. (JCC I, p. 289)<br />

1835 April 23 Letter from brother Abram in East Bergholt to J.C. in London:<br />

"there are but few people can make a piece of canvass worth<br />

£300. . . The prints. . . are a constant delight. . . . I told [Mr.<br />

Edward Godfrey] I thought your plan was to sell him [the<br />

small property at East Bergholt]." (JCC I, pp. 289-90; see<br />

also JCC IV, p. 81)

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