Royal Society of Literature,
4, St Martins Place, W. C. 4. Che
May 13. 1874
Dear Mr Talbot
Thank you for your letter <1> I dont think Harrison <2> will make any objection to lend our Printer J. E. Taylor & Co as much cuneiform type as may be wanted for your paper
Quite at your leisure will you enlighten my ignorance on this point? On the plan commonly called [illegible] Susa Layard <3> series 2. Pl. 49 (or 48) is a brief Legend one word apparently in Cuneiform.
Does this word read Susa? Am I justified in saying that the plan is known to be Susa from the name there on?
Ever sincerely Yrs
W. S. W. Vaux
[envelope:]
H. Fox Talbot Esq
FRS
Laycock Abbey
Chippenham
Wilts
Notes:
1. Letter not located.
2. Of Harrison & Sons, Printers, London.
3. This is a reference to the inscriptions copied at Susa, north of Ahwaz, Southwest Iran, by Sir Austen Henry Layard (18171894), politician and one of the excavators of Nineveh.