7th May 1875
My dear Sir,
Your paper <1> is in Type and was read before the Biblical it will appear in the forthcoming volume of Transactions
Smith <2> will go out to Mesopotamia in the autumn of this year to renew his work at Kouyenjik <3> –
The 4h Volume is all printed off but 8 plates which will be struck off as soon as possible my only regret is that it did not come out long ago There is nothing very new at present Delitzch <4> is to go to Heildelburg as professor. Do you know any thing of Mr Boscawen <5> a young Assyriologist who is makg progress
Believe me Yours very truly
S Birch
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H. Fox Talbot Esq
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham
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Brit: Mus:
Notes:
1. WHFT, Commentary on the Deluge Tablet (read 4th May 1875), Transactions of the Society of Biblical Archaeology (London), v.4, part 1, June 1875, pp. 49–83.
2. George Smith (1840–1876), Assyriologist.
3. Nineveh mound opposite Mosul.
4. Misspelling of Prof Conrad Gerhard Friederich Delitzsch (1850–1922), German biblical scholar.
5. William St Chad Boscawen (1854–1913), Assyriologist & author.