Brompton
8 Jany 1861.
My dear Sir,
I think I told you that I was about to resign the Secretaryship of the R As. Soc. <1> This is now done, and Mr Redhouse <2> is secretary. The Council however, wishing me to remain still among them, have named me Honorary Secretary, viz. nominal Secretary; but as I am thus a permanent member of Council, I can always act in matters more especially belonging to my own chosen studies. Your additions will be made to your paper, but this will hardly go yet to the printer, because he has in hand a long paper at this moment. I will see Redhouse, and ask him if your paper can be sent at once.
I think tzurnu may be "rain", see <cuneiform text> of Tig Pil. viii. 27. but etymologically "frost" would be better in the Osiris, <Hebrew text> Heb. – for radu I would propose to read subsid<illegible>: the root <Hebrew text> Heb. which is translated subdue, certainly means flattening, thinning, such as beating into thin leaves, see 1 Kings vi. 32, where the spreading of gold on the carvings is mentioned. Instead of "subdue" I should be inclined to render "crush" enemies, &c. Then your note to Michaux col iii l 24, will still be applicable to <ardutr?> though I confess I do not read the word lirtidadu; but in fact I do not know what to make of this last word; the last part looks like <cuneiform text> but <cuneiform text> alone makes no word that I know of. We have yet a good deal of work to do before certainty can be reached, in any thing but plain narrative.
Believe me my dear Sir yours faithfully
Edwin Norris
H F Talbot Esq&c &c &c
Notes:
1. Royal Asiatic Society.
2. Sir James William Redhouse (1811–1892), orientalist.