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Document number: 9264
Date: 28 Oct 1867
Dating: 1867? indistinct
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: NORRIS Edwin
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Last updated: 1st September 2003

Michael’s Grove

28 Oct 1867

My dear Sir

I shall post with this the sheets pp 408–480; much obliged for the glossary, which I know I shall find useful. I fear that Rawlinson <1> will be too much occupied with his Indian Councillorship to do much, which I am aggrieved at, for he trusts his excellent memory too much, like poor Hincks, <2> and will leave nothing behind him. Having a bad memory myself, I put every thing on record relating to cuneiforms, and any one hereafter who may take the trouble will be able to continue my work, though not without some trouble, for my materials are necessarily very much embrouillées, <3> overrun with alteration and interpolations. Smith <4> is working hard with Vol. III and beginning a Vol. IV.

Yours very faithfully

Edwin Norris

H Fox Talbot Esq

&c &c

Notes:

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

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

3. mixed

4. George Smith (1840–1876), Assyriologist.

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