[engraved notepaper:]
Royal Asiatic Society,
5, New Burlington Street, W.,London,

11 June 1860.

Dear Sir

I have sent off this morning for you a copy of the Nakshi Rustam Inscription, and hope it will reach you safe.

My reference to ritzipat [sic] "beautifies" was to the effect that the reading did not make[cuneiform text] the founder; there could hardly be two founders. But I do not remember any Assyrian statement of the building of Calah. Genesis says Assur, if the translation usually followed be right

I cannot send you the Sennacherib Inscription you want; I have but one copy and that is not corrected. I am comparing it with the originals in the British Museum.

Thanks for the corrected sheets of your version, which shall be sent to Rawlinson.

Yours sincerely
Edwin Norris

H F Talbot Esq
&c &c &c

P.S. Do you remember that Vaux scraped out with his fingernail the final wedge in the [cuneiform text] distinctly shewing the character?

[envelope, inscribed by WHFT "Norris":]
H. F. Talbot Esq.
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham