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Title: Life and letters of John Constable, R. A
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Leslie, Charles Robert, 1794-1859
Subjects: Contable, John, 1776-1837 Artists
Publisher: London : Chapman and Hall
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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which I have not got, nor ever had. Through the kindnessof your sister, he has seen my book, and has taken a liking to The Sea Beach, thinking, no doubt, it was done from some-thing more than a sketch. I know not what to say—perhaps youwill call on me to-morrow evening, and we will go together tohear Sir Martin. Mr. Vernons picture is not yet gone to him ;he wants it, but it never was half so good before, and I will do asI like with it, for I have still a greater interest in it than anybodyelse. •• To Mr. William Carpenter. Dear Sir,—Accept my best thanks for the book, JamessItalian School, which I return. The Dictionary is a mostvaluable work, but, as I go on referring to it, I occasionally meetwith errors ; and how can it be otherwise, when the sources fromwhence the information is derived are so often erroneous .■* Ishall not fail, however, to make memoranda when I meet withthem, to submit to you. My character of Ruysdael I have not Mr. Edward Carey, of Philadelphia, U.S.
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i83S) FIRST SKETCH OF ARUNDEL MILL. 309 yet found, but I can always write it for you, and better andbetter.* I have never ceased to work on Mr. Vernons picturesince I saw you; it is at present with him in Pall Mall, but iscoming back by the bearer for more last words. My painterslibrary is now getting very considerable. I wrote a long note toyou the other day, full of nonsense, which my man lost by theway. Charlotte Street, To Mr. George Constable. December 16///. We shall be delighted to see you and any of your family;our plans are thus. My daughters come home to-morrow, andwill go in a few days to their aunt at Wimbledon. John and Ihave engaged to eat our Christmas dinner at Bergholt, with myown family. We shall leave town on the 24th, and stay a week ;in the second week of January, therefore, we shall look for you.Can you bring with you the little Gainsborough, and the sketchI made of your Mill ? John wants me to make a picture ofit. I had a nice excursion to Worcester, and got on

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