Michael’s Grove

17 August 1870

My dear Sir,

You are right in umsassi without doubt. There are many errors in the copy of that inscription, which is really very illegible, and the wonder with me is that the errors are not more numerous.

I will jot down a list of errors which I have found in Tayler’s cylinder. I have no doubt you are aware of many of them, in fact I know I have taken some form <sic> your notes. It would be very useful to print such lists; I have lost a great deal of time in trying to read passages with faulty words.

i 47 for isu read Kansu

63 <cuneiform> read <cuneiform>

<illeg> 76 for <cuneiform> (fourth letter) read <cuneiform> I think.

<illeg>. Sen Gr. 24.

ii.42 for <cuneiform> read <cuneiform> duklat

34 <for> <cuneiform> <read> <cuneiform>

62 <for> <cuneiform> <read> <cuneiform>

iii 68 <for> <cuneiform> <read> <cuneiform> (qinit) verb

v 7 <for> <cuneiform> <read> <cuneiform>

16 <for> <cuneiform> <read> <cuneiform> Suannak

24 for <cuneiform> read <cuneiform> (to Babylon)

59 <for> <cuneiform> <read> <cuneiform>

vi. 23 <for> <cuneiform> <read> <cuneiform>

24 <for> <cuneiform> <read> <cuneiform>

49 <for> <cuneiform> <read> <cuneiform>

57 <for> <cuneiform> <read> <cuneiform>

v. 54 <for> <cuneiform> <read> <cuneiform>

vi.5. <for> <cuneiform> <read> <cuneiform>

These are written in much haste: some perhaps wrong. I am finishing a sheet for print<ing?>, and packing up for a journey to Worthing: hard work for me, who must myself get my books together. After Thursday next my address will be “N^o 13 Montague Place, Worthing.” I am going to try two months sea bathing for my lower extremities. I can now hardly walk above two or three hundred yards.

Yours faithfully

Edwin Norris

Fox Talbot Esq

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