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The published transcript of this letter can be found in Shirley (No. 174, page 130) and Beckett (page 424). The leaf has been numbered S174, referring to the order in Shirley's publication. A pencil inscription on the top reads \u2018Nov. 1835'.\n\nTRANSCRIPT:\n\n---\nDear Lucas -\n                     I dare say you have heard by this time how the Elections* went - Cousins was elected - he being only the other candidate - You had however 4 votes - which - with the way in which your works were spoken of was most respectable - indeed Chantry and others were very much impressed with - Chantry I know would like much to see You but he is at Brighton at present - as Mrs Chantry's so very ill - or has been - I told him You were his neighbour - but for the life of me I could not recollect your devil of a street the name of which has always perplexed me - I know not how I shall find it to direct this letter by - for at this moment no power on Earth could make me name it -\n      Mr Vernon will let us have the picture as some future time - but he declines letting it go to the Gallery - which I much regret - as his name would have protected it =\n      I want much to see You and - will You then look out some copies of my work for me  - as I want to know what they are for want of the Word proof being on them - & the paper of all being such muck - I know not how to look them out - for my friend if I should want them - I have just got a set sent back to Hodgsons - because they are not proofs - or not prints - I cannot tell which - this work was born to torment me - & which it never fails to do on all possible occasions - it is even amusing to see - the shapes it put on for that very purpose -\n   = Tell me how to settle with Moon - when we meet - \nThe Large Salisbury - is thought much of [t\/n: words deleted] the Election of Hart - & MacClise** - do the Royal Academy honor.\nI cannot tell your street. Roberts*** says he never heard it - [Joe?] may remember - if I once get it again I will put it on my long book.\n     \n     Mr Vernon's picture**** - looks uncommonly well indeed now that it is oiled out - & got up a little in richness - & it will be much better -  ''4 Nov. 1835''.\n\n     I want very much to print some of the Appendix - as I tell you if I could distinguish proofs from print I should be so glad - but all the paper is dirty & rotten alike so that it does not help me - except those with English - & India paper which I can distinguish - the whole mass I have got is muck - except those -\n                                                    Yours - John Constable \n\n---\n\n*Royal Academy elections, wherein Lucas sought election as an Associate Engraver. However, Samuel Cousins won the election.\n\n**Solomon Alexander Hart and Daniel Maclise had also been elected Associates to the Royal Academy.\n\n***Beckett identifies Roberts as 'the children's old nurse'.\n\n****Shirley identifies the picture as 'Willy Lott's House', while Beckett identifies it as 'The Valley Farm'."}]},"identifier":[{"accession_number":"Constable\/EL\/1\/1\/137","primary":true,"type":"accession number","value":"Constable\/EL\/1\/1\/137"},{"priref":"110009900","type":"priref","value":"110009900"},{"type":"uri","uri":"https:\/\/data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk\/id\/object\/110009900","value":"https:\/\/data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk\/id\/object\/110009900"}],"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":"235"},{"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"}}