society of biblical archæology,

9, Conduit Street, W.

1^st Nov^r 1872

My Dear Sir

Your paper is safely to hand.

I only know the vedas in Wilson’s translation, and the Avesta in that by D^r Spiegel, edited by Black, but the whole strain of many of the Hymns most singularly resembles your Assyrian discovery. As perhaps you cannot easily obtain Spiegels work I will next week send you some extracts from it. As you will recollect Lenormant alludes to the zendic and Chaldean Mythologies as possessing certain analogies I hope that you will, as before, add the Cuneiform text when the paper appears in the Transactions

Yrs fait^ly

W. R. Cooper

H. Fox Talbot. E