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Document number: 8532
Date: 15 Mar 1862
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: NORRIS Edwin
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection number historic: Acc no 21933 (envelope only)
Last updated: 9th December 2014

Brompton
15 March, 1862.

Dear Sir

My best thanks for your papers, which have just now reached me. I write in haste, with the doubtful hope of saving this post.

I find my memory was faulty in the reading I sent you. It should have been [cuneiform text] Guga sar Luddi, I find it twice written, once perfectly clear.

As to the [Bavian?] inscription, it is not mine. I copied it when I was in the pay of the Trustees, <1> and it is intended to come in Vol II of our work. Layard’s three copies, from which I made my collation, would no doubt, be made visible to any reader at the Museum, and you could see them in town when you come; some has been published by Layard: I mean that part commented on by Hincks, <2> where the old date is given. [But?] the version only is poor, so far as I remember, not the original

Yours faithfully
Edwin Norris

H. F. Talbot Esq
&c

[envelope:]
H.F. Talbot Esq
Millburn Tower
Edinburgh


Notes:

1. Trustees of the British Museum.

2. Rev Edward Hincks (1792–1866), Irish Egyptologist & Orientalist.

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