Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume 3
A manual of Bengali Prosody is an excellent idea and I hope you will carry it out – but you are right in postponing it as the success of the musical records is now the immediate kartavyaṃ karma, the thing to be done. 
Thompson writes from the heights wrapping the purple cloak of his misunderstood benevolence and magnanimity around his wounded heart with a dignified but sorrowful calmness. It is rather astonishing to learn that Tagore objected to Ramakrishna’s being regarded as a great man! It is good that he should have changed his mind under whatever influence. But great men make such blunders in their estimate of contemporaries that it is after all not so astonishing perhaps as it looks at first sight!