SOCIETY OF BIBLICAL ARCHÆOLOGY
9, Conduit Street, W.
ASSYRIAN AND EGYPTIAN TRANSLATIONS
13th Octr 1873.
Dear Sir
Thanks for your kindness Send the Taylor MSS <1> direct to Bagster <2>
Kings Road
Grays Inn W.C
Mr Sayce <3> wishes you to give the Hammurabi <4> text as you first published it in the R.S.L
If you wish to write to me till Monday I shall be with
Sir William W Burton
Melcombe House
Pittville
Cheltenham
Yours faily
W R Cooper
H. Fox Talbot. Esq. FRS.
[envelope:]
Henry Fox Talbot. E. FRS
&c &c &c
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham
Wilts
Notes:
1. ‘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: 02721].
2. Jonathan Bagster (1813–1872), publisher, London.
3. Archibald Henry Sayce (1845–1933), Egyptologist & Orientalist.
4. He first published it in 1863. [See Doc. No: 08948].