P.S. Having consulted my Landlord, I find that I can pay carriage all through to Cambridge. Therefore it is that I send you, not only your own Book, and my own, but also one of the genteel copies of Boswell's Johnson; and Wesley's Journal: both of which I gave you, only never sent! Now they shall go. Wesley, you will find pleasant to dip into, I think: of course, there is much sameness; and I think you will allow some absurdity among so much wise and good. I am almost sorry that I have not noted down on the fly-leaf some of the more remarkable Entries, as I have in my own Copy. If you have not read the little Autobiography of Wesley's Disciple, John Nelson, give a shilling for it. It seems to me something wonderful to read these Books, written in a Style that cannot alter, because natural; while the Model Writers, Addison, Johnson, etc., have had their Day. Dryden holds, I think: he did not set up for a Model Prose man. Sir T. Browne's Style is natural to him, one feels. FELIXTOW FERRY: _July_ 25 [1868.] MY DEAR COWELL, I found your Letter on reaching Woodbridge yesterday; where you see I did not stay long. In fact I only left Lowestoft partly to avoid a Volunteer Camp there which filled the Town with People and Bustle: and partly that my Captain might see his Wife: who cannot last _very_ much longer I think: scarcely through Autumn, surely. She goes about, nurses her children, etc., but grows visibly thinner, weaker, and more ailing. If the Wind changes (now directly in our Teeth) I shall sail back to Lowestoft to-morrow. Thompson and Mrs. T. propose to be at the Royal Hotel there till Wednesday, and we wish, I believe, to see each other again. Sailing did not agree with his bilious temperament: and he seemed to me injudicious in his hours of Exercise, Dinner, etc. But he, and she, should know best. I like her very much: head and heart right feminine of the best, it seemed to me: and her experience of the World, and the Wits, not having injured either. I only wanted Macmillan to return the Verses {107} if he wouldn't use them, because of my having no corrected Copy of them. I see in the last Athenaeum a new '_and revised_' Edition of Clarissa advertised. I suppose this 'revised' does not mean 'abridged,' without which the Book will _not_ permanently make way, as I believe. That, you know, I wanted to do: could do: and nearly have done;--But that, and my Crabbe, I must leave for my Executors and Heirs to consign to Lumber-room, or fire. Pray let me hear of your movements, especially such as tend hitherward. About September--Alas!--I think we shall be a good Deal here, or at Woodbridge; probably not so much before that time. Ever yours and Lady's, E. F. G. WOODBRIDGE: _March_ 1/69. MY DEAR COWELL,