Michaels Grove Brompton
27th April, 1867
My dear Sir,
Thanks for your letter, <1> and for the sheet which came with it. I have just glanced at it, and see much that demands my attention. I will now only mention that the line from Sh.39 which you quote in page 63 is a misprint, as Rawlinson <2> informs me: it should have been [cuneiform]. I do not know what it means just now. For p 45 you quote me as to Vidafraná, from vol.x p.192; it should have been vol. xv. But the Text and Translation containing the [cuneiform] vidafraná, are found at pp. xi & xii, of Rawlinson’s notes, dated 1 Feb 1850, made on a second visit to Behistun. I cannot tell you the number of the volume in which it appeared originally because it is bound up in my copy with vol. x to which it refers.
I enclose a list of all the types which the printer has. I cut this from my dictionary, but can easily get another copy. All the types are numbered so that you may at once communicate your wishes to the printer by giving him the numeral.
Opinions are very much varied as to the probability of war. Those whose opinions you hear most, think there will be no war, but they admit fully the probability of one or both Governments being driven beyond their prudential considerations by some violent fit of national excitement or susceptibility. I think you might venture abroad safely, no danger now-a-days of travellers to their own lands, especially in these railway times
I am faithfully
Edwin Norris
H. F. Talbot Esq
[envelope:]
H. Fox Talbot Esq
13 Great Stuart Street
Edinburgh
Notes:
1. Letter not located.
2. Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, 1st Baronet (1810–1895), orientalist.