{"admin":{"added":1697738723000,"created":1697715441000,"flag":"Standard Record","id":"object-110009965","indexed":1747160955708,"modified":1722963093000,"processed":1747159409017,"source":"adlib","stream":"fitz-online","uid":"adlib-object-110009965","uri":"https:\/\/data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk\/id\/object\/110009965","uuid":"0b55d7d5-d6e4-3b89-8731-e19080973969","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 a letter from John Constable to David Lucas, dated 20 February 1837. Its published transcript can be found in Beckett (page 434). Alongside the letter, the envelope also includes a typescript transcript, prepared by former Museum staff. The letter is written on the verso of a printed Address (28 May 1832).\n\nTRANSCRIPT:\n\n---\n\n                                                                                                                  20 Feby 1837\nDear Lucas\n                       I am sorry to hear of your being confined by illness - I send Joe to know how you are -\n            We are all at a standstill about the plate we know not how to entitle it - I have seen Hodgson on the subject he would prefer it with a ''Dedication'' - of some kind. to give it an eclat - [t\/n: 'after' crossed out] I left him with a promise to get a title sketched - & send the person to me - this he did not do - & [t\/n: word\/letter crossed out] a few days - are now lost - I sent to him for the address of the writing engraver & he sends it - Mr Becker 18 Euston Square - New Road - is [t\/n: 'that' crossed out] the same as yours\n         I saw Chantry on the subject, & told him my perplexity - he said he would try to help me - I asked [t\/n: 'him' crossed out] - to allow me to dedicate it to him. he said cannot ''cannot you find a better man than me'' I said not in my estimation - I wish to know - if the Mr Becker is your man that I may see him & get him to sketch a plan for me leaving space for a name.\n                                                                                                               John Constable\n\n---"}]},"identifier":[{"accession_number":"Constable\/EL\/1\/8\/MS8-1951","primary":true,"type":"accession number","value":"Constable\/EL\/1\/8\/MS8-1951"},{"priref":"110009965","type":"priref","value":"110009965"},{"type":"uri","uri":"https:\/\/data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk\/id\/object\/110009965","value":"https:\/\/data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk\/id\/object\/110009965"}],"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":"242"},{"dimension":"Width","units":"mm","value":"194"}]},"summary_title":"MS Letter, Constable to Lucas","title":[{"value":"MS Letter, Constable to Lucas"}],"type":{"base":"object","type":"OBJECT"}}