1695837675000 1695822073000 Standard Record object-110009927 1747159484853 1722958409000 1747159409017 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-110009927 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110009927 bb9290d6-fba2-3316-a984-e01b293bb3ab 2 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 person reference agent-127143 adlib-agent-127143 5809bc32-f751-3d98-932c-b2871a71a534 Smirke, Robert content description This is an undated letter from John Constable to David Lucas. Owing to its content, it is most likely that it was written around 1837. The published transcript of this letter can be found in Beckett (page 435). A pencil inscription on the top reads ‘Mar. 1837'. TRANSCRIPT: --- Mr Lucas 27 Westbourne St Saturday Dear Lucas I am disappointed again at not seeing you here this afternoon [.] I felt sure Holland would find you - but engravers are wandering runabout runaway people, always at large - Can you come this Evg - I will stop [?] hope of you - I wish so much to see you - send back the Mill & the Salisbury impressions - when [? ?] - I did not know they were in the press - pray come - Yours J.C. I want to see you [badly?] [.] Cook* wanted to see you - he wants Smirke's Lady Pentweazle - What do you intend ever doing with the two large landscapes. --- *Beckett identifies as Richard Cook, R.A. Constable/EL/1/1/163 1 accession number Constable/EL/1/1/163 110009927 priref 110009927 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110009927 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110009927 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 187 Width mm 112 MS Letter, Constable to Lucas object OBJECT