Society of Biblical Archæology,
9 Conduit Street, W.
18th Sep 1873
My Dear Sir
Your MSS safe to hand will you please generally write to enclosed address as I often have to stay at home from ill health
As the “Ishtar” <1> will not be printed till after your paper is read before the Society there can be no difficulty in letting us have it for “Records of the Past <2>
You seem to misunderstand Bagsters part in the matter it is done purely con amore You and others give the Texts. Private friends the cash Bagster the printing Profits if any to be divided between the S.B.A & the Printers <3>
Hope to see you next week
Yrs fally
W. R. Cooper
Henry Fox Talbot Esq.
[envelope:]
Henry Fox Talbot. E. DCL FRS
&c &c &c
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham
Wilts
Notes:
1. WHFT, ‘Legend of Ishtar descending to Hades’, Records of the Past being English Translations of the Assyrian and Egyptian Monuments (London: Samuel Bagster & Sons), v.1 (1874), pp. 141–149, edited by Samuel Birch (London: Samuel Bagster under the sanction of the Society of Biblical Archaeology, 12 vols., 1874–1881).
2. Records of the Past being English Translations of the Assyrian and Egyptian Monuments (London: Samuel Bagster & Sons).
3. Harrison & Sons, Printers, London.