{"admin":{"added":1691776870000,"created":1691753823000,"flag":"Standard Record","id":"object-110009854","indexed":1747160954942,"modified":1711382092000,"processed":1747159409017,"source":"adlib","stream":"fitz-online","uid":"adlib-object-110009854","uri":"https:\/\/data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk\/id\/object\/110009854","uuid":"7adcb1cc-67cf-3952-8ff7-8191b658f0e3","version":3},"agents":[{"@link":{"relation":"person","type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"agent-29619","uid":"adlib-agent-29619","uuid":"ef67fb8d-9a82-3301-9947-b8d0526effb3"},"summary_title":"Constable, John"},{"@link":{"relation":"person","type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"agent-82139","uid":"adlib-agent-82139","uuid":"5787a108-be4d-3fcb-adb7-368ca6d4dc85"},"summary_title":"Lucas, David"}],"content":{"description":[{"type":"content description","value":"This is an undated letter from John Constable to David Lucas. Shirley dates this letter to early May 1832. Beckett, however, suggests that this letter was written between 8 and 25 June 1832. The published transcript of this letter can be found in Shirley (No. 109, page 84) and Beckett (page 378). The leaf has been numbered S109, referring to the order in Shirley's publication. \n\nTRANSCRIPT:\n\n---\nDear Lucas\n                 As I see noting of you I sent the portfolios\n    I tremble for my wretched little work. \n    The prints you [t\/n: 'send' crossed out] sent I have taken to Sparrow* - but as he is in love I suppose he can hardly attend to me\n     There are so many of them good for nothing that I have told him to lay out all such as are not fit to put together - the paper is no better than I shall adhere to the resolutions - I had formed of sending the plates to McQueen** after we have proved them - for that seems [t\/n: 'the best of the ?' deleted] a most usefull part of it.\n      I have looked for you since tuesday Evg - the time you fixed  Yours\n                                                                                                   J.C\n\nSparrow will not be able to put up more than 2 thirds of the print - the paper is so very wretched*** -\n                                                                                                    J.C -\n\n---\n\n*Sparrow was the letterpress printer.\n\n**McQueen was a printer of engravings and lithographs.\n\n***Shirley reads this word as 'stretched'."}]},"identifier":[{"accession_number":"Constable\/EL\/1\/1\/91","primary":true,"type":"accession number","value":"Constable\/EL\/1\/1\/91"},{"priref":"110009854","type":"priref","value":"110009854"},{"type":"uri","uri":"https:\/\/data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk\/id\/object\/110009854","value":"https:\/\/data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk\/id\/object\/110009854"}],"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":"185"}]},"summary_title":"MS Letter, Constable to Lucas","title":[{"value":"MS Letter, Constable to Lucas"}],"type":{"base":"object","type":"OBJECT"}}