[from a typescript in the Central Archives]
BM, 23 Dec 1863
Dear Sir
With reference to your letter of the 19th and my reply of the 25th ult, I have the pleasure to acquaint you that the Trustees have complied with your request for a copy of the collection of Photographs of Clay Tablets bearing Cuneiform Inscriptions. <1>
Will you be so good as to let me know in what way you would like to have them sent to you?
Believe me &c
A Panizzi
H Fox Talbot Esqre
8 Rutland Square, Edinburgh
Notes:
1. The minutes of the Trustees meeting of 19 December recorded that "The Trustees directed that a copy of the collection of Photographs of the Assyrian Tablets be presented to Mr. Fox Talbot."