Laravel - Pass custom data to email view

Following on from a previous question, I have an email controller set up to correctly pass user data to the view. I am now trying to modify it so I can pass some custom data instead. My controller looks like this...

namespace App\Mail;

use Illuminate\Bus\Queueable;
use Illuminate\Mail\Mailable;
use Illuminate\Queue\SerializesModels;
use Illuminate\Contracts\Queue\ShouldQueue;

class Welcome extends Mailable
{
    use Queueable, SerializesModels;

    public $email_data;

    public function __construct($email_data)
    {
        $this->email_data = $email_data;
    }

    public function build()
    {
        return $this->view('emails.welcome')->with(['email_data' => $this->email_data]);
    }
}

And I am sending the email like this...

  /* Create Data Array For Email */
        $email_data = array(
            'first_name'=>'John', 
            'last_name'=>'Doe', 
            'email'=>'john@doe.com',
            'password'=>'temp',
        );

        /* Send Email */
        Mail::to($user->email)->send(new Welcome($email_data));

Is this correct? When I try using this method it does not seem to be passing the data through to the email template. How can I then access this data within the view?

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