TALBOT5468

5, Lansdowne Circus,
Leamington.
Feb. 10. 1862

Sir

As a perfect stranger to you I beg to apologise for the liberty of addressing you, but hope that the love of science will induce you to excuse it.

When I was in the Medal Room of the British Museum last Tuesday, my friend M^r Vaux shewed me a slip copy of an article by you upon an Assyrian [cuneatic?] inscription in which you believed you had discovered an earlier record of the coinage of money than we had previously possessed. As the origin of money has been a subject which has occupied my attention for many years past, and upon which I have published a number of articles in the Numismatic Chronicle, I should much like to peruse carefully your communication, which I had not the opportunity of doing at the Museum. Would you therefore do me the favour to lend me a slip copy for the purpose, which I would return as soon as I had made extracts from it.

M^r Vaux has assured me you would pardon this application, and also any observations I might make to you upon the subject of your paper.

I have the honour to be, Sir, Yours obediently
W B Dickinson

H. Fox Talbot Esq^r
Milburn Tower,¹
Edinburgh.

[envelope, annotated by WHFT "M^r Dickinson, Lemington":]
H. F. Talbot Esqre
Milburn Tower
Edinburgh