TALBOT8486

B Museum
Dec. 20/61

My dear M^r Talbot

I owe you many apologies for not having answered your last letter before. I fully intended so doing but having been very busy have put this off from day to day.

I think we should be very glad to have your promised translation of Sir Thomas Phillipps’s Cylinder – and if you would send it to me before Jan 9. I would communicate it to the Society on that Evening.

I have not seen anything of Sir H. Rawlinson for a long time, but Norris who was here the other day – tells me that he is hard at work again after a month’s rest in the autumn – I was very sorry not to be able to come and see you at Milburn [sic] Tower¹, but though in Edinburgh for a day – I was only passing through – and my time was necessarily given to the friends I was with

Every sincerely y^rs
W. S. W. Vaux