Soane Museum
Lincolns Inn Fields
28^th Aug^t 73

Dear Sir

I am much obliged to you for your kind promise the Translations must however have no exegetical notes merely stating the place of the Inscription and in what work the original text appears. It would be impossible otherwise to bring out a series of 3/6 “Records of the Past” ^<1> for all Readers

Could you promise about 50 pages of Translation by six weeks hence? I am pressed on all sides to issue the work at once It would be particularly desirable to print the Historical & Mythological Portions in Vol I. Vol II will be Egyptian

I send off your copy of Vol II P. I tomorrow

Private

Do you know anything of M^r E. R. Hodges ^<2> as an Assyriologist

I remain Dear Sir Yours fa^lly
W. R. Cooper

Henry Fox Talbot Esq DCL FRS
&c &c &c

[envelope:]
Henry Fox Talbot. E. DCL FRS
&c &c &c
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham
Wilts

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Notes:

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

2. Edward Richmond Hodges (1826–1881), orientalist & missionary.