Can't you act on Spedding's Advice and have your Prolegomena separate, if considerable in size? I don't doubt its Goodness: but you know how, when one wants to take a Volume of an Author on Travel, Ship-board, etc., how angry one is with the Life, Commentary, etc., which takes up half the first volume. This we don't complain of in George III. because he is not a Classic, and your Athenaeum Critic admits that yours is the best Part of the Business by far. _To E. B. Cowell_. '_Scandal_'; LOWESTOFT, _June_ 17 [1867]. MY DEAR COWELL, I wrote to Elizabeth, I think, to congratulate you both on the result of the Election: I have since had your Letter: you will not want me to repeat what, without my ever having written or said, you will know that I feel. I wrote to Thompson on the subject, and have had a very kind Letter from him. Now you will live at Cambridge among the Learned; but, I repeat, you would rather live among the Ignorant. However, your Path is cut out for you: and, to be sure, it is a more useful and proper one for you than the cool sequestered one which one might like to travel. I am here in my little Ship--cool and sequestered enough, to be sure--with no Company but my Crew of Two, and my other--Captain of the Lugger now a- building: a Fellow I never tire of studying--If he _should_ turn out knave, I shall have done with all Faith in my own Judgment: and if he should go to the Bottom of the Sea in the Lugger--I sha'n't cry for the Lugger. Well, but I have other Company too--Don Quixote--the 4th Part: where those Snobs, the Duke and Duchess--(how vulgar Great Folks then, as now!) make a Fool and Butt of him. Cervantes should have had more respect for his own Creation: but, I suppose, finding that all the Great Snobs could only _laugh_ at the earlier part, he thought he had better humour them. This very morning I read the very verses you admired to me twenty years ago-- Ven muerte tan escondida, etc. They are quoted ironically in Part IV. Lib. VII. Ch. 38. Ever yours, E. F. G. WOODBRIDGE: _Oct._ 12 [1867]. MY DEAR COWELL, When you have leisure you will let me know of your being settled at Cambridge? I also want to have your exact Address because I want to send you the Dryden and Crabbe's Life I promised you. At present you are busy with your Inaugural Address, I suppose; beside that you feel scarce at home yet in your new Quarters. Mr. Allenby told me on Wednesday that Mrs. Charlesworth was really up again, and even got to Cambridge. Please to remember me to her, and to all your Party.