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Document number: 00231
Date: 07 Jan 1877
Dating: dated by reply, 01506; death of Geo Smith Aug 1876
Harold White: "year wanting"
Recipient: BIRCH Samuel
Author: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Collection: British Museum, London - Dept of Ancient Near East
Collection number: Corr v.13 n.6409[1868-81]
Last updated: 1st September 2003

Lynwood Bournemouth

Jany 7

My Dear Sir,

I have drawn up a short paper on the Cypriote inscriptions which with the sanction of the Council I propose to lay before the Society of B. Archy <1>

I have the pleasure of sending you a copy by todays post.

I am only the interpreter of the German scholars Moriz Schmidt, Deeke and Siegismund, <2> but I have carefully examined their writings and verified their Statements and conclusions or else sometimes Endeavoured to correct them –

I wrote to Mr Cooper <3> our Secretary, but have received no answer which makes me think he may be gone abroad for his health, if so he has probably left a deputy to transact the business but I do not know his name –

Hoping this paper may interest you, & believing that these German researches will be new to many members of the Society

I remain Yours faithfully

H. Fox Talbot

PS. from list of subscribers received I think that the George Smith <4> Fund is now over £600?Dr Birch, B Musm

Notes:

1. Society of Biblical Archaeology.

2. Moritz Schmidt (1823–1888); Wilhelm Deecke and Justus Siegismund. [See Doc. No: 06427].

3. William Ricketts Cooper (1843–1878) Secretary, Society of Biblical Archaeology, London. He had not replied to WHFT because he had been ill. [See Doc. No: 01506].

4. George Smith (1840–1876), Assyriologist. Smith died in August 1876, and his Fund reached the figure of £600,00 by January 1877, which is the date of this letter.