John Constable: Toward a Complete Chronology. - Reed College

1812 Oct 28 Letter from Maria in Bognor to J.C. in East Bergholt. (JCC II,
p. 91)
1812 Nov 2 Elections for associate members to the Royal Academy; J.C.
is an unsuccessful candidate. (JCC II, p. 94)
1812 Nov 3 Returns to London with uncle David Pike Watts from East
Bergholt. (JCC II, p. 92; see also JCC I, p. 84 and JCC IV, pp.
34, 54)
1812 Nov 5 Farington records: "Constable called; being returned from the
country where He had been studying landscape & painting
some Portraits"; etc. (Farington XII, p. 4250)
1812 Nov 6 Letter from J.C. in London to Maria in Bognor: "About that
time [four to six weeks] I shall be . . . obliged to leave London
for several weeks as I am engaged to paint a whole length
portrait for a Gentleman [Captain Western]." (JCC II, p. 93;
see also JCC IV, p. 242 and JCC VI, p. 17)
1812 Nov 6 Letter from Maria in Bognor to J.C. in London, mentioning
plans to visit London, perhaps at the end of the month. (JCC
II, p. 92)
1812 Nov 10 Fire in the house in Charlotte Street above which J.C. lodges,
forcing him to move out temporarily. (JCC II, p. 94; see also
JCC IV, p. 54, and JCC I, p. 84, where the date is given
incorrectly as Nov. 7)
1812 Nov 10 Farington records: "rose at a quarter past 5, being alarmed
by my Servants of a fire having broke out at a House nearly
opposite to mine inhabited by Wright, an Upholsterer where
Constable, the landscape & Portrait Painter lodged. He
brought over many of His things"; etc. (Farington XII, p.
4252)
1812 Nov 10 Letters from J.C. in London to Maria in Bognor and mother in
East Bergholt. (JCC II, p. 95 and JCC I, p. 84, where the date
is given incorrectly as Nov. 7)
1812 Nov 11 Farington records: "Constable called & told me that He had
suffered no loss by the fire, and that Henderson the Dentist