Letter from Edward A. Freeman, Oxford, England, to Dean, 1888 June 8 : autograph manuscript signed.

Acknowledging that he has received his letter and that "it has been backed up by one from the Town Clerk of Worcester", but although be agrees with both, he is not sure what he "can do for the free cities", as the utmost he can think of would be to write to the Times; adding that he will try to "stir" himself up, and asking "Only how many readers will know what a 'county of a city' means?"; writing "That's a hard question about a History of Rome", and noting that while (Theodore) Mommsen is "the Greek swell of all", he himself maintains that from living in England he "understands some things that Mommsen does not"; going on to mention prominent English scholars, hoping that Dean "took to Belisarius", and suggesting that he read Procopius with (Thomas?) Hodgkin's commentary.