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Document number: 8779
Date: 26 Dec 1863
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: NORRIS Edwin
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection number historic: Acc 21839 (envelope only)
Last updated: 20th April 2013

Brompton
26 Decr 1863

Dear Sir,

I am glad you are come back to town, and hope I shall see you next week. We are unfortunately busy at my office, and I am working Sundays and holidays. My Museum is open all next week. I shall be at the Asiatic Society on Tuesday morning till one o’clock, to welcome our new Secretary who comes from Canterbury. It is Dr Rost, <1> an old friend of mine, and a Semitic Scholar, whom I intend to press as an Assyriologue.

If you contrive to reach Michael’s Grove some evening after 7 o’clock, I should like to shew you the progress I am making with my dictionary, <2> the papers are too bulky for conveniently carrying about.

I remain Dr S yours faithfully
Edwin Norris

H Fox Talbot Esq
&c &c &c &c

[envelope:]
H. Fox Talbot, Esq
Athenæum Club
Pall Mall
SW.


Notes:

1. Reinhold Rost (1822–1896), German orientalist.

2. Norris, Assyrian Dictionary (London: Williams and Norgate, 1872).

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