44 Cornmarket
Oxford
May 18. 1874
Dear Mr Fox Talbot
Thank you for your prompt reply to my query
The following is the Inscription Layard Series 2. <1> Pl. 49
<cuneiform text>
There is a little doubt about the last group which I have marked thus (x) because there is a flaw in the stone – The Inscription is in the <illegible> of a plan, which Loftus from personal examination says must be that of Susa. – The question is whether the Cuneiform characters can fairly be so read.
Tell yr son, <2> with my Compts, that I have been looking forward to his promised visit to Oxford He will find me here every week for the next six months generally 4 days in each week, if he will give me 2 or 3 days notice – Could not you come too?
Ever sincerely yrs
W. S .W. Vaux
H. Fox Talbot EsqNotes:
1. This is a reference to the inscriptions copied at Susa, north of Ahwaz, Southwest Iran, by Sir Austen Henry Layard (1817–1894), politician and one of the excavators of Nineveh. [See Doc. No: 02796].
2. Charles Henry Talbot (1842–1916), antiquary & WHFT’s only son.