Henry Creswicke Rawlinson1 to Faraday   9 February 18562

Saturday | Feb -8- [sic]

My dear Sir,

I shall be much obliged if you will lend me the printed lists of Babylonian & Assyrian Kings prepared for the Royal Institution last year3 - as I have to give a lecture on the subject on Monday next4 -

They shall be returned to the Institution on Tuesday.

Yours faithfully | H. Rawlinson

Henry Creswicke Rawlinson (1810-1895, ODNB). Assyriologist and diplomat.
Dated on the basis of the reference to Rawlinson’s Friday Evening Discourse and that this loan was noted in RI MS F5B, p.2.
Rawlinson (1855), Friday Evening Discourse of 15 June 1855. This list is referred to here.
That is 11 February 1856.

Bibliography

RAWLINSON, Henry Creswicke (1855): “On the Results of the Excavations in Assyria and Babylonia’”, Proc. Roy. Inst., 2: 143-5.

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