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Document number: 9816
Date: 19 Oct 1871
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: NORRIS Edwin
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Last updated: 1st September 2003

<crest of E and N intertwined>

Montague House

19th October 1871

My dear Sir

I have just found a letter of yours, of Sept. 30, which I fear I did not reply to. It was about ץח “arrow,” as an analogue for ussi. I have a difficulty about admitting this, as I do not remember any case of omitting the n in Assyrian; I do not think the aspirate is ever weakened beyond the <cuneiform>, and even that I respect, having found <cuneiform> occasionally put for <cuneiform>.

Thanks for nahiri, which I have entered in my manuscript. I have nothing in print beyond NDB madbuti, being greatly missled <sic> about a passage in Botta 15r.14=158 <&?> Botha 190.9,10 Bott Oppert’s version is simply nonsense I think. I make nothing of nindan. but think it a <niphal?> form of andut-sun, root nada. The printer has copy as far as nazir.

I propose to be in Michael’s Grove to-morrow, not much better for seven weeks ‘sea air’ but I hope a little stronger

I remain my dear Sir Yours faithfully

Edwin Norris

H. Fox Talbot Esq

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