John Constable: Toward a Complete Chronology. - Reed College

1836 May 12 Letter from J.C. to George Constable in Arundel: "I have
engaged to deliver four lectures. . . . they will comprehend a
pretty full account of the history of landscape. . . . I got up a
tolerably good picture for the Academy, not the Mill, which I
had hoped to do, and which was prettily laid in as far as
chiaroscuro, but I found I could not do both—and so I
preferred to see Sir Joshua Reynolds's name and Sir George
Beaumont's once more in the catalogue, for the last time in
the old house. . . . The Exhibition is much liked. Wilkie's
pictures are very fine, and Turner has outdone himself—he
seems to paint with tinted steam, so evanescent, and so
airy." (JCC V, pp. 32-33; see also JC: FDC, p. 230 and JCD, p.
33)
1836 May 13 Letter from J.C. to Mrs. Aders. (JCD, p. 98; see also JC: FDC,
p. 9)
1836 May 14 Letter to W.H. Carpenter from J.C.: "May I return the
expensive Copy of Limage . . . and acquire the little paper
copy? (JCD, p. 98)
1836 May 16 Lecture notes. (JCD, p. 86)
1836 May 20 Letter from brother Abram in East Bergholt to J.C. (JCC I, pp.
301-02)
1836 May 23 Note from J.C. in London to Henry W. Pickersgill in London.
(JC: FDC, p. 265; see also pp. 5, 9)
1836 May 23 Note from Martin Shee to J.C. (JC: FDC, p. 288)
1836 May 26 First lecture of a series of four at the Royal Institution in
London, on "The Origin of Landscape." (JCD, pp. 38-49; see
also JCC III, p. 139, JCC IV, pp. 281, 306, JCC V, p. 48, JCC I,
p. 300 and JC: FDC, pp. 8, 10, 157, 288)
1836 May Letter from J.C. in London to Andrew Geddes in London. (JCC
soon after 26 IV, p. 306)
1836 May 27 Attends demonstration, "On opening a Mummy," at the Royal
Institution. (JC: FDC, p. 260)