Brit: Mus:
28. Feby. 1857.
My dear Sir,
Many thanks for your disertation[sic]. It reminds me of a promise I have to fulfill – but I could not find the brochure of Grotefend<1> at the Moment but in emptying a chest the other day I came upon it & I despatch it by Post. I shall look with interest to your account of the Tiglath Pileser Cylinder <2>
Believe me Yours Very truly
S Birch
Notes:
1. Georg Friedrich Grotefend (1775–1853), German archaeologist and philologist. [See Doc. No: 07356, and Doc. No: 07373].
2. The inscription of a clay cylinder dating from the reign of Tiglath Pileser I, King of Assyria (1115–1077 BC). [See Doc. No: 07386]. WHFT published on Tiglath Pileser in 1853 and 1857. [See Doc. No: 00092, and Doc. No: 07404]. Also see H J P Arnold, William Henry Fox Talbot; Pioneer of Photography and Man of Science (London: Hutchinson Benham, Ltd, 1977), pp. 304–305.