Brompton
15 March, 1862.
Dear Sir
My best thanks for your papers, which have just now reached me. I write in haste, with the doubtful hope of saving this post.
I find my memory was faulty in the reading I sent you. It should have been [cuneiform text] Guga sar Luddi, I find it twice written, once perfectly clear.
As to the [Bavian?] inscription, it is not mine. I copied it when I was in the pay of the Trustees, 1 and it is intended to come in Vol II of our work. Layard’s three copies, from which I made my collation, would no doubt, be made visible to any reader at the Museum, and you could see them in town when you come; some <portion?> has been published by Layard: I mean that part commented on by Hincks, 2 where the old date is given. [But?] the version only is poor, so far as I remember, not the original
Yours faithfully
Edwin Norris
H. F. Talbot Esq
&c
[envelope:]
H.F. Talbot Esq
Millburn Tower
Edinburgh
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