TALBOT7342

British Museum
Dec. 29^th. 1856

Sir

I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the day before yesterday.

As I have already informed you that the Trustees wished, before complying with you request, to remove any misunderstanding that might exist on the subject between you & Sir H. Rawlinson.

I have communicated to Sir Henry the correspondence which has taken place between you & me, in the presence of M^r. Norris, who informed Sir Henry that he had heard from you respecting this business. Sir H. Rawlinson promised to write to me, and I was in hopes that his letter would remove any difficulty in the way of communicating to you the copy that you asked of certain lithographed Assyrian inscriptions. I have however received no letter, as I expected, and I am told that Sir H. Rawlinson said to one of the person employed here, about a week ago, that he would not be here for some time. ¹

Under these circumstances it is for you to decide whether you still wish to withdraw the request you made to have a copy of the above mentioned inscriptions. I beg particularly to point out to you that it is not owing to any objection on the part of the “Museum authorities” that your request is not yet complied with. I remain

Sir Faithfully Yours
A Panizzi

H.F. Talbot Esq