6 Michael’s Grove SW
14 May 1872

My dear Sir,

I have been intending to reply to your note every day, but really have had every second employed. I think you are right about apusu 1021; but I do not like קפכ for napatch. I do not remember ever seeing ק for ח. Thanks for the erratum [cuneiform] for [cuneiform] in p. 1028; my eye-sight is by no means what it was. I fear I have more than hundreds of misprints, and I find them too often. I record all I find, and am glad to have any notice of others; I should say “desirous,” far from “glad” I should like any references to birki aquat to [cuneiform]; I think Rawlinson mentioned some but I have more recorded. Are you sure of namé “crops.” The word has always to me connected with water. I have mentioned the connexion of [hebrew] and [hebrew] in pp 870 and 878.

I quite agree with you that the Akkad [cuneiform] seems useless, but there is much in the language quite incomprehensible to me. I fancy we must look at the structures (not the words), of the northern tongues, from Thibet to Siberia. Castren has worked hard on the Siberian and Finnish, and Schott at the forms of the [Altai?]. Kolgan has published papers on the Thibetan and Himalaya. If I was forty years younger, I should try my hand at them, but now any attempt on my part would be absurd

I remain, yours very truly
Edwin Norris

H. Fox Talbot Esq
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