TALBOT2766

SOCIETY OF BIBLICAL ARCHÆOLOGY
9, CONDUIT STREET, W.
24^th Mch 1874

My Dear Sir

I am very glad to hear that you have sent your paper ¹ to Harrisons, ² pray make it a long one How would it do to illustrate it with a plate giving figures of Ishtar from Statuettes and Cylinders?

I presume that you have read Lenormants “Premieres [sic] Civilisations” ³ in which under the title of the Chaldean Veda, the legend of Ishtar is examined, if however you have not, I will lend the work from the Society’s library, it is but just out M^r Smith ⁴ will soon return with 2000 fragments more of philological than general interest

Lenormant is here busily decyphering the Achonosmid ⁵ Tablets

Pardon me for saying that I have not yet received your valuable glossary ⁶

My Dear Sir Yours fa^lly
W. R. Cooper

H. Fox Talbot. Esq. F.R.S.