TALBOT9701

14 September 1870
13 Montague Place, Worthing

My dear Sir,

I was scarcely ever more surprised in my life than I was yesterday on looking at page [illegible mark] 49 to which you referred me in your letter, relative the to duppa and duba, which I had utterly forgotten, and even now, with the lines before me, I cannot recollect having written the note there; this is for me a sad evidence of my failure of memory, which has long annoyed me, and is I fear increasing. I had written off a paragraph on the subject to the printer, and shall have to modify it when the page is returned for revise.

Manzazanu is certainly a plural, malgré the [cuneiform]. ur is only the case ending, and an the plural ending. Oppert and Hincks both agree in the plural anu, and I dare say Ménant, but I did not bring his grammar with me. I agree with all the rest of your letter. In my dictionary you have this nominative plural in p453 – harsanu [ua?]qutu…..ikbiuni-su. “when the dense forests called him,” or “the dense forests having called him”

I have begun to go through your Glossary regularly, marking all the words I meet with in the alphabetical places in my own manuscript dictionary; I think I shall find the benefit of it as I get on

Yours faithfully,
Edwin Norris

H. Fox Talbot Esq
&c &c

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H Fox Talbot Esq
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham