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has served him well thus far, and which I wish you—if it be consistent with your other arrangements in the United States—to secure for yourself; I mean the period for lecturing.
He has the first course of the season; it is usually the time when we have the finest weather,—October and November,—and the audiences are fresh and eager.
Please think of this.
It is a matter of somewhat more consequence than it was when you were here before, because lectures of all kinds are less run after.
Three full, large audiences, however, still listen to three different courses weekly, and several minor ones are going on at the same time . . . .
Please offer to Mr. J. L. Mallett my best thanks for the copy of the life of his father he has sent me. His father's name has been familiar to me from my boyhood, when I read his ‘Considerations on the French Revolution,’—published here,—and received a direction to my opinions on that subject which I think has not been materially altered since.
I am, therefore, much interested in a full account of their author, . . . . who was undoubtedly one of the best, as well as most far-seeing men who entered into the French Revolution.
One of the most important points connected with that momentous movement was the change it made in the laws for the tenure and descent of property, and the constantly widening results that follow from it. I have at different times, and now again lately, considered this subject, and on talking it over one day at dinner with Mr. Tremenheere1 he told me Lord Lovelace had published a most important pamphlet about it . . . . . Will you do me the favor to make some inquiry about it, and if there be such a pamphlet send me a copy of it. Affectionate regards to dear Lady Lyell from all of us, as well as to yourself.
Yours faithfully,
To F. Wolf, Vienna.
Boston, April 6, 1852.
my dear Sir,—I thank you for the curious and interesting tracts you have been so good as to send me on Castillejo, and on Don Francis de Zuniga, but especially for your admirable paper on the remarkable collection of Spanish Ballads, that you found at Prague.
