51 Richmond Grove
Barnsbury. N
SOCIETY OF BIBLICAL ARCHÆOLOGY
9, CONDUIT STREET, W.
27th Octr1873
My Dear Sir
Your Ms <1> safe to hand there will now be enough for the volume Many thanks for your kind cooperation
I am now arranging for the Egyptian volume M.M. Chabas, Horrack, and Birch <2> are authority
Dear Sr Yrs truly
W R Cooper
H Fox Talbot Es FRS &c &c &c
[envelope:]
H. Fox Talbot F.R.S.
&c &c &c
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham
Notes:
1. Possibly ‘Taylor’s cylinder of Sennacherib’, which was included in the 1875 edition of Records of the Past being English Translations of the Assyrian and Egyptian Monuments (London: Samuel Bagster & Sons), v.1. [See Doc. No: 02726].
2. François Joseph Chabas (1817–1882), French Egyptologist; Philippe Jacques Ferdinand de Horrack (1820–1902), French Egyptologist; Dr Samuel Birch (1813–1885), linguist, Keeper at the British Museum, London.