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Document number: 9684
Date: 12 Aug 1870
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: NORRIS Edwin
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Last updated: 1st September 2003

Michael’s Grove

12 August 1870

My dear Sir,

I have this morning sent off by rail, the copy of Ménants Book, with many thanks: I have found some useful notes in it, but on the whole I think it the most wasteful work I have ever seen; the repetitions are endless, and the errors not a few. I think a dozen or two pages properly arranged would embrace all the information the book contains. I have taken the opportunity to enclose the clean sheets of my dictionary to page 804; not quite the Average quantity, but more than I could have hoped to complete in consequence of my weak state of health. I have two to three dozen more pages in type, uncorrected. The letter M contains so many words that I am weary of it, but I hope to get into N in two or three more sheets.

I remain my dear Sir Yours faithfully

Edwin Norris

H. Fox Talbot Esq

&c &c &c

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