TALBOT5767

Fulham
28 Jan^y 1839.

Sir,

I beg to thank you for the wish, which you are so good as to express, of dedicating to me your ingenious Essay on the Antiquity of the Book of Genesis. ¹

Having found it advisable, for reasons, which you will readily imagine, to observe for some years past a general rule, not to give a formal permission to any author to inscribe to me a work relating to theological subjects, I am not at liberty to depart from it in the present instance, although there is nothing in Your Essay to which I have any other objection, than that some of your Etymological reasonings are rather far fetched.

I have the honour to be Sir Your obedient faithful Servant
C. I. London

P S. With reference to your remarks on Attis it may be remarked that “ΑΤΤα”, a name by which young persons addressed their parent or [hume?] (or generally an elder, Collins Ep.i. 3.) is said by Eustathius ² to have been a Thessalian word.

Henry Fox Talbot Esqr