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Document number: 2833
Date: 18 May 1874
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: VAUX William Sandys Wright
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Last updated: 1st September 2003

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 Esq

Notes:

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.

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