To E. B. Cowell.
3 Park Villas West, Richmond, Surrey,
October 25/53.
My dear Cowell,
. . . I think I forgot to tell you that Mr. Maccarthy (my literal Rival in Calderon) mentions in his Preface a masterly Critique on Calderon in the Westminster 1851, which I take to be yours. [284] He
says it, and the included translations, are the best Commentary he has seen on the subject.
I have ordered Eastwick’s Gulistan: for I believe I shall potter out so much Persian. The weak Apologue [285a] goes on (for I have not had time for much here) and I find it difficult enough even with Jones’s Translation.
I am now going to see the last of the Tennysons at Twickenham.
To F. Tennyson.
Bredfield Rectory, [285b] Woodbridge.
December 27/53.
My dear Frederic,