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The published transcript of this letter can be found in Shirley (No. 94, page 73) and Beckett (page 367). The leaf has been numbered S94, referring to the order in Shirley's publication. \n\nTRANSCRIPT:\n\n---\n                                                                         28 Feby. 1832\nDear Lucas,\n                     I was engaged to a dinner party to see some brother Academicians when your brother's* arrival with the proof. compleately took away my desire to join them - and I have therefore declined it as I know I should have been out of spirits -\n                                        Though I know writing to you can do no good - & I would not for the world hurt you - still if you think of it our situation with my unfortunate work is very deplorable - and what to do I know not - nor can we help one another -\n                                    I really consider the state of the Salisbury plate as so utterly hopeless that I have come to the determination to abandon it - & substitute the New Sarum of which you have a plate ready grounded in its place as I told Alfred - this will [t\/n: 'through' crossed out] throw us back again - but as we don not advance that is no very material -\n                               Consider - we are not one whit forwarder With our 5th No. than we were in the middle of last November - both the ''Salisbury'' - and the ''Glebe farm'' on looking at the proofs - I find to be in a far very far preferable state than they are at present - nay were they more fit for publication - the Glebe farm - I compounded for with many regrets - but the Salisby I never can nor never will !! - for I now see tyhat the rotten muck which it is necessary to you to reground a plate - can neither be wrought upon - nor will it stand if it is = this I argue from seeing that you have scarcely touched the plate only for [t\/n: word deleted] some few trifles since you first brought it to me with the regrounding - and this is a fortnight ago -\n                                                                                                                                My despair is now great for the compleation of the book this Spring - or even Summer - as we certainly retrograde - nor as I said have we advanced one Iota since November -\n                       I hope you are getting well - but I lay all your calamity & ill health - and my own as relates to the Work - to the door of the Arch old Scoundrel Bowyer** - Yours\n                                                                                          J.C -\nperhaps I had better have gone to this [t\/n: word crossed out] pleasant dinner party - I only just sent my refusal in time but I could not have got our sad affairs out of my head - still I might have had a pleasant hour - and at least not have disappointed and vexed my friends -\n                                                                                   Yours very truly J.C -\n                                                                                                      -  - - -\n \/ I am [t\/n: word crossed out] dashing away at the Great London - and why not I may as well produce this abortion as another - for - who care for Landscape.\n       Leslie was here today and he rather encouraged me - with it - he wants a bit more on the right - this will sadly throw me out in the [?] [t\/n: Shirley: 'dorm'; Beckett: 'frame'].\n\n---\n\n*The proof of Salisbury was brought along with a note by Lucas (Shirley 93, page 73 and Beckett page 367) to Constable by Alfred Lucas.\n\n**Shirley's footnote for Bowyer reads: 'Probably Robert Bowyer (1758-1834), whose portraits of William IV and Queen Adelaide Lucas engraved and Bowyer published this year. In a letter, belonging to Mr. P.D. Leslie, Constable writes to Leslie that Bowyer is using Lucas cruelly.'"}]},"identifier":[{"accession_number":"Constable\/EL\/1\/1\/77","primary":true,"type":"accession number","value":"Constable\/EL\/1\/1\/77"},{"priref":"110009840","type":"priref","value":"110009840"},{"type":"uri","uri":"https:\/\/data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk\/id\/object\/110009840","value":"https:\/\/data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk\/id\/object\/110009840"}],"institutions":[{"@link":{"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"agent-149638","uid":"adlib-agent-149638","uuid":"7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8"},"summary_title":"The Fitzwilliam Museum"}],"lifecycle":{"creation":[{"maker":[{"@link":{"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"agent-29619","uid":"adlib-agent-29619","uuid":"ef67fb8d-9a82-3301-9947-b8d0526effb3"},"summary_title":"Constable, John"}]}]},"measurements":{"dimensions":[{"dimension":"Length","units":"mm","value":"226"},{"dimension":"Width","units":"mm","value":"187"}]},"summary_title":"MS Letter, Constable to Lucas","title":[{"value":"MS Letter, Constable to Lucas"}],"type":{"base":"object","type":"OBJECT"}}