Killyleagh C^o Down
18^th March 1865

Dear Sir,

I have received your letter of the 8^th inst & paper which accompanied it. Also (a very short time previously, tho' it must have arrived a year ago) another paper of yours on some Assyrian tablets. I am now recovering from an attack of jaundice & I suppose you know how very weakening it is & destructive of all energy. I had a much worse attack at Christmas 1862 & in fact I have never been well since. I have not yet read either of your papers but hope to do so ere long. I was vy much vexed at the mistakes as to my views in Chaba¡¯s translation of my paper. He could not see that I identify the . and signs with the of the Hebrew & of the = & he has made me say almost the contrary of what I did say.

M^r Norris has something in the way of a lexicon in progression. Perhaps it may appear next year I think the mode of printing used by Chabas might answer for a few pages, the rest being printed in the ordinary type. Chabas has just sent me a pamphlet in which he blames de Rougé & Mariette bitterly for holding back valuable documents in order that no one but themselves should have the benefit of them. The French may plead that they have only done as Rawlinson has done here

Believe me Yours vy truly
Edw Hincks

H. F. Talbot Esq^er

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H. F. Talbot Esq^r
13 Great Stuart Street
Edinburgh