TALBOT8124

F office

15 June 1860

Dear Sir

I enclose your passport, for which I have paid 2/-

Rawlinson’s translation came from Persia I think in 1850, it was printed forthwith, and ought to have been issued with the Babylonian Memoir; but in the absence of instruction the Council did not like to publish it, and so it remains. Of course he could do better now; as for instance in the case of the Scyths "with shields on their heads," where I think the word s is magenta the Hebrew <Hebrew text> or <Hebrew text> I forget which. I have noticed others, but the inscription is not before me.

I am in much haste

Edwin Norris

H F Talbot Esq

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