1692036059000 1692009518000 Standard Record object-110009861 1747160954845 1712572298000 1747159409017 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-110009861 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110009861 7fba6c7b-ace9-35b2-b6b8-f727482f0df6 3 person reference agent-29619 adlib-agent-29619 ef67fb8d-9a82-3301-9947-b8d0526effb3 Constable, John person reference agent-82139 adlib-agent-82139 5787a108-be4d-3fcb-adb7-368ca6d4dc85 Lucas, David content description This is a letter from John Constable to David Lucas, dated 25 June 1832. The published transcript of this letter can be found in Shirley (No. 116, page 88) and Beckett (page 380). The leaf has been numbered S116, referring to the order in Shirley's publication. TRANSCRIPT: --- June 25 1832 x The Shepherd Boy* Dear Lucas I send you the picture x with my best hopes & wishes. & which I assure you are not slight - or disinterested but I am more anxious for your sake than my own. but my anxious wish is that your enthusiasm may not be thrown away or prove unpropitious. My dear little girl is better** - God be praised & with his blessing she may recover - she got much sweet sleep yesterday - but otherwise it was my most anxious day though the fear was greatest (pulse 150) on friday. I hope for a gradual advancement now - I am full of anxiety about the other two little dears - who of necessity must be left at the school. but apart from her Yrs J.C. This morning the Cryer of Hampd was occupied this way - ''O Yes'' - this is &c - the Revd Doctor Irvine*** - will reach on the top of the Heath at 1/2 past six o clock this Evg - on the bench under the tree at the corner of Mr Holfords Garden - God save the King - ''&c &c - do your people do these things? - ''surely the devil reignth'' ... Yours dear Lucas J. Constable Mr Savage**** says ''they'' only preach for ''fun'' - I wish that would make fun in any other name than God's - but we live in a strange age of the world = Have you anything to send back by Pitt - of my lumber - Sparrow***** is at work at last - ---- *This is added in pencil, perhaps by a later hand. 'The Shepherd Boy' was another name for 'The Lock'. **Beckett notes that on 22 June 1832, Constable's daughter Minna had a serious attack of scarlet fever. ***Edward Irving - founder of the Irvingite religion. ****Constable's housekeeper. *****Sparrow was the letterpress printer. Constable/EL/1/1/98 1 accession number Constable/EL/1/1/98 110009861 priref 110009861 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110009861 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110009861 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum reference agent-29619 adlib-agent-29619 ef67fb8d-9a82-3301-9947-b8d0526effb3 Constable, John Length mm 221 Width mm 190 MS Letter, Constable to Lucas object OBJECT