SOCIETY OF BIBLICAL ARCHÆOLOGY
9, Conduit Street, W.

5^th Jany 1874

My Dear Sir

The Notices were duly forwarded to Lacock Abbey by an oversight I have also sent Prof Schrœder vol II. Part. 1.

M^r Sayce ^<1> has sent us a very long paper on the Assyrian Astronomy & Astrology with Texts and translations it will cost much to print, and the council would like to issue entire if I can obtain private donations towards the probable expense 50 or 60£ it would then make a double part and come out punctually in July. M^r Bosanquet ^<2> has promised 20£ towards this may I ask if you would feel inclined to assist in the publication of this important work.

We are now 237 members but that is not enough to carry on all that I should like to see done

M^r Sayces paper will in part be read in Febry. Sir H. Rawlinson ^<3> in the chair

I remain
My Dear Sir
Y^rs fa^lly

W. R. Cooper

the “Records of the Past” will be issued at Tomorrows Meeting

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Notes:

1. Archibald Henry Sayce (1845–1933), Egyptologist & Orientalist.

2. James Watman Bosanquet (1804–1877), banker & author.

3. Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, 1st Baronet (1810–1895), orientalist.