West Hill House
Ventnor
20^th September 1872

My dear Sir,

I am much obliged to you for the Glossary which reached me yesterday. I have some observations to make, one of which is my conversion to the meaning of [cuneiform] newly, which I had been inclined to make a verb, (I founded) or else “strongly” or “from the foundation”; just in time to get it into a note on the word ussis, “I founded.”

I am summoned by my family for an excursion in this fine weather which will account for my more than usual shaky writing; my semi paralysis increases, and I am haunted with the idea of a complete stoppage to my dictionary

Yours very faithfully
Edwin Norris

H. Fox Talbot Esq
&c &c &c

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H. Fox Talbot Esq
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham