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Document number: 4579
Date: 05 Feb 1875
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: BIRCH Samuel
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection number: Acc 22809 [envelope only]
Last updated: 20th April 2012

BM
5th February 1875

My dear Sir

Professor Oppert <1> has just issued a new translation of the descent of Ishtar. <2> Have you seen it and would you like to notice it in the reprint of your notice in Vol. I. of the Records of the Past. If so pray insert it on your proofs

Believe me Yours very Truly
S Birch

H. Fox Talbot Esqe

[envelope:]
H. Fox Talbot Esqe
Laycock Abbey
Chippenham

Notes:

1. Prof Julius Oppert (1825–1905), German Assyriologist, active in Paris.

2. WHFT had published before ‘Legend of Ishtar descending into Hades’, Records of the Past, being English Translations of the Assyrian and Egyptian Monuments, v.1, 1874, pp. 141–149.

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