Saturday.

Dear Sir

I hasten to scrawl off a dozen words to save the post. The enclosed ^<1> is just come from the lithographer; it was his copy for the stone.

I dare say you are right about kautzi, but I do not know the word. (See <Hebrew text>–the end)

You will see that I make no changes in the work, but set down just what I see in the copies brought home; leaving it to Rawlinson ^<2> to make it right; I do not consider myself as having any discretion in the matter; though I think I see errors. Dont hurry to return the copies, for I shall have no reply from Sir H. R. for a couple of months, but in the mean time I shall be glad with any observations. You will see from the collation that I have had some difficulty about fitting in the lines, and I cannot but have made errors. The original copies which I have at my disposal are very bad, and what I send you will give you no notion of the uncertainty which attends the proper collocation of the lines. The copies were evidently taken from the rocks under considerable difficulties.

I am in much haste

Edwin Norris

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Notes:

1. No enclosure.

2. Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, 1st Baronet (1810–1895), orientalist.