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Document number: 00217
Date: 12 Feb 1876
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: COOPER William Ricketts
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Last updated: 1st September 2003

5, Richmond Grove,
Barnsbury, N.,

12th Feby 1876

Dear Sir

I thank you for your promised paper <1> which I will announce for next meeting. The new part of the transactions will be ready (I hope) next week

Mr Smith <2> has obtained his firman and starts for Assyrie on the 17th he will be accompanied by a new Assyriologist Prof Eneborg of Helsingfors

In the July part of the transactions we shall publish part of an Himyaritic Grammar by Capt Prideaux <3>

<Yrs tly?>

W.R. Cooper

H. Fox Talbot Esq F.R.S.

Notes:

1. Cooper had asked WHFT on 5th February 1876, to contribute to the Assyrian translations in the Records of the Past being English Translations of the Assyrian and Egyptian Monuments: Assyrian Texts, v.7, September 1876 (London: Samuel Bagster & Sons). [See Doc. No: 00192].

2. George Smith (1840–1876), Assyriologist. In March 1876, he was sent by the British Museum to excavate the rest of Assurbanipal’s library.

3. Probably William Francis Prideaux. In 1877 he published A Sketch of Sabæan Grammar; with examples of translation, reprinted from the Transactions of the Society of Biblical Archæology (London).