TALBOT3402

SOCIETY OF BIBLICAL ARCHÆOLOGY
9, CONDUIT STREET, W.
5 Richmond Grove
Barnsbury. N

13^th Augt 1874

My Dear Sir

I hope that you will supply us with as many texts as possible for the Records of the Past, ¹ as in consequence of the Revisions rendered necessary by the discovery of new texts, M^r Smith ² will not be able to let us have his contributions in time. So unless we have 40 pages from you the issue will be arrested please assist in this extremity.

I have written to M^r Schrœder ³ for a Translation, or rather a reprint of his translation of the Babylonian text of the Behistun Inscription. ⁴ Oppert ⁵ declines to give us anything unless we pay for it, which at present we cannot do M^r Sayce ⁶ is nobly coming forward, and Sir Henry ⁷ has promised some translations

I hope that you received your copy of the Transactions ⁸ last night. pardon a Secretary’s vanity but is it not a nice thick volume?

I remain My Dear Sir
Yrs fa^lly
W. R. Cooper

H Fox Talbot. Esq. FRS
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