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John Constable: Toward a Complete Chronology. - Reed College

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1810 Aug 7 Letter from mother in East Bergholt to J.C. in London, urging<br />

his visit to Suffolk, and "I hope we shall see your work before<br />

you carry it to Nayland." (JCC I, p. 48)<br />

1810 Aug 11 Letter from mother in East Bergholt to J.C. in London: "Uncle<br />

David . . . will ensure you a purchaser [for] your fine picture<br />

for Nayland." (JCC I, p. 49)<br />

1810 Aug J.C. arrives in East Bergholt with the altar-piece for<br />

post-11 Nayland church. (JCC I, p. 50; see also JCC IV, p. 20)<br />

1810 Oct 23 Letter from <strong>John</strong> Jackson in London to J.C. at East Bergholt:<br />

". . . I wish we might find some sequestered cottage [in the<br />

new Forest] . . . to put our heads in at night and in the day to<br />

explore and sketch for a fortnight or three weeks." (JC: FDC,<br />

pp. 223-24; see also JCC IV, p. 225)<br />

1810 Nov To London from Suffolk. (JCC IV, p. 19; see also JCC I, p. 51)<br />

prob. 11<br />

1810 Nov 12 Letter from uncle David Pike Watts in London to J.C. in<br />

London. (JCC IV, p. 19)<br />

1810 Nov 24 Letter from uncle David Pike Watts in East Bergholt to J.C. in<br />

London: "I have seen the Altar Piece at Nayland Church . . . it<br />

is scarcely justifiable for any Picture to be shewn so raw."<br />

(JCC IV, pp. 20-22)<br />

1810 Nov 29 Letter from mother in East Bergholt to J.C. in London: ". . .<br />

received yours of the 26th with pleasure." Urges visit to<br />

bishop of Salisbury, whose invitation was accepted next year.<br />

"Your Uncle . . . could not leave contemplating . . . your<br />

Picture at Nayland." (JCC I, p. 51; see also JCC VI, p. 10)<br />

1810 Nov On the list for the candidates for Associate of the Royal<br />

Academy for the first time, but receives no vote. (JCC IV, p.<br />

241 and JC: FDC, p. 175)<br />

1810 Dec Letter fragment, undated, from mother in East Bergholt to<br />

soon after 6 J.C. in London, written soon after 6 Dec. 1810 when William<br />

Church was buried at East Bergholt. (JCC I, p. 51)

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