TALBOT9070

Foreign office

8 March 1866

My dear Sir,

Many thanks for your kind offer to help me in the photo-engraving. I was thinking of printing a page containing all the forms of letters from the Heiratic down to the Persian times, and another of all existing forms, in one normal shape, with all the values attached; – and possibly an additional plate of all the unknown forms occurring on the slab, such as <cuneiform> &c &c., but not yet. they would take a long time to prepare.

You will see, I hope, a specimen of my dictionary in the forth-coming number of the Society’s Journal, ¹ two sheets only. But I am going to be more ambitious, and print the whole work in one separate volume of a much larger size. Some kind friends have promised to assist me in paying the printer. I propose leaving this Office in a few weeks to devote myself wholly to the work. I am too old now (71) to brook much delay, and there is hardly any one else zealous enough to do such laborious work

Yours faithfully

Edwin Norris

H. Fox Talbot, Esq
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