A. Panizzi Esq.
[in another hand:] Rec Dec. 15th 1856
Friday Dec.r 1856
Sir
I beg leave to make the following addition to the letter which I had the honor to address to the Trustees through you, the other day.
Feeling sure that I had received a full and complete authorization to apply to the Trustees for copies of the lithographs, should it be their pleasure to give them, I have searched for Mr Norris's letter, and having found it, I beg leave to make the following extract from it. He says-
"I have shown your letter to Sir H. Rawlinson, and he thinks it would be a more satisfactory proof of the truth of the decipherment, if you should take up something which is quite new such as the Annals of the Tiglath Pileser which will appear at the same time as those of Scnnacherib- Tiglath Pileser's Annals are lithographed but not yet printed off - I believe the Trustees of the Museum will issue the two together, and if not, they would doubtless furnish you with a copy for the very valuable use to which you would apply it."
You will observe, that I am not only encouraged to apply to the Trustees, but that the particular lithographs which it was most desirable that I should apply for, was pointed out to me.
I have the honor to be Sir you most obed.t servant
H. F. Talbot