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Document number: 3175
Date: 19 Feb 1874
Recipient: BIRCH Samuel
Author: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Collection: British Museum, London - Dept of Ancient Near East
Collection number: Corr v.13 n.6447[1868-81]
Last updated: 1st September 2003

Dr S. Birch
B. Musm

4 Circus Bath

Feb. 19. 1874

My dear Sir

I should be glad if you would kindly give me some information respecting Mr G. Smith, <1> is he in Mesopotamia at present? I shall probably be in London for a short time in March, and should wish to study some of the Assyrian tablets, would that be possible during Mr Smith’s absence?

I hope you are satisfied with the first volume of Records of the Past <2> – I fear that it is too dry for the Public, would it not be better to allow of the insertion of some popular notes or illustrations?

The Egyptian volume will I think be much more interesting, judging from the programme. Do you think that a second Assyrian volume will be published at Christmas? If so, I could translate a few inscriptions at leisure during the summer –

Believe me
Yours truly

H. F. Talbot

Notes:

1. George Smith (1840–1876), Assyriologist.

2. Records of the Past being English Translations of the Assyrian and Egyptian Monuments (London: Samuel Bagster & Sons).

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