TALBOT9695

13 Montague Place

Worthing

26 August 1870

My dear Sir

You are quite right about makasid, and I can only wish you had been at my elbow, when I was writing that page containing such a stupid blunder, when in p 712 I had quoted correctly a passage perfectly parallel. I am much obliged to you for pointing this out. It is an unpleasant evidence of gradual loss of memory; I have reason to be surprised at your penetration in discovering the error in a form so concealed.

These things sometimes make me regret having undertaken a task somewhat above my powers; but I am consoled in the hopes of having collected a lot of material which will be a help to some future worker, whose labours will be lessened by what I have attempted. I am fully convinced that another generation will give the world as good a picture of the Assyrian language as we have now of the Hebrew.

Yours very faithfully

Edwin Norris

H Fox Talbot Esq

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