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Michaels Grove

5 Nov^r 1868

My dear Sir,

I have waited to learn the date of the Athenæum containing a short paper by Smith, rather hazarded I think – it is in N^o 2137. Oct. 10^h p. 463. I do not know why volume III is not yet published; probably there may be some changes required here and there, but my legs are so much weaker than they were, that I go rarely to the museum, and I see very little of Rawlinson ¹ since his aggregation to the Indian Council. I am not sure as to vol 41, but know that it is contemplated.

I think my health is better for my visit to Ventnor, but I could not walk about to enjoy the beauties of the place, as I could in my many former visits to it.

I have been studying your Glossary ² at leisure moments (which are few and far between) this morning I found your hutard <cuneiform> I think you must be in error; I find <cuneiform> “no-son-having” meaning perhaps impotent or eunuch as apposed to aklu, see my page 176 – I have closely examined the tablet you refer to N169, printed in vol II sheet 25, but cannot find the bits you mention. I have not examined the photograph, only the printed sheet.

I am My dear Sir Yours faithfully

Edwin Norris

H. Fox Talbot, Esq
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