1697133627000 1697105730000 Standard Record object-110009961 1747764232665 1747736396000 1747764229462 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-110009961 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110009961 b6cfbc25-a5fd-355b-917f-c8be2a8a847c 5 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 Undated note from John Constable to David Lucas. Alongside the letter, the envelope also includes a typescript transcript, prepared by former Museum staff. This letter is written on the verso of a folder with the Prospectus (1832) and Address (28 May 1832). TRANSCRIPT: --- 1. Great interruption of my time - & peace of mind 2. An anxiety that ought not to be with me 3. Selling off the Prints in lots or in detail - a trouble 4. Nobody will ever pay me what they owe me 5. I never was able to get money of a printseller yet 6. I must supply the trade with property 7. I confer all the benefit - they not equally to me 8. I commit myself with faithless & low people 9. A disrepute in joining with them in trade 10. Advertizing very disagreeable - & disreputable 11. A great anxiety and disturbance of mind 12. better to pay money to be out than in a bad job 13. Consider the first loss as mostly the least 14. Not to volunteer not all the above or 15. any of it - above all consider the weight on the mind -- J.C. I must keep the press continually at work - for the benefit of the printsellers - printing always money into their pockets and out of my own - as this They will say - they will take 100£, worth - by which they mean 200£ worth paying only for one / if at all To print this [t/n: ''200 prints' crossed out] it will cost me 30 percent out of this hundred pounds - leaving me 70£ only - & to be paid when & how they can -- N.B. all the printsellers are miserably poor - & few if any have any have capital at - which your property indeed supplies This if I give 300£ for the plate - to raise it again I must spend 300£ more on it - so great will the quantity be that is required by the trade = for the sum - and in fact the plate would be worn out before it paid for itself - and besides that another expence would be ocasioned by the replenishing the plate &cc. to enable it to go on. thus would be the case - if in my hands - and as Remuneration is hardly to be hoped - profit is hopeless. --- Constable/EL/1/8/MS4-1951 1 accession number Constable/EL/1/8/MS4-1951 110009961 priref 110009961 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110009961 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110009961 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 241 Width mm 192 MS Letter, Constable to Lucas object OBJECT