SOCIETY OF BIBLICAL ARCHÆOLOGY
9, CONDUIT STREET, W.
3d Novr1873
My Dear Sir
I shall be glad to have your paper <1> at once to complete the forthcoming part
There are nearly 2000 Books in the Library, Mostly Theological it being that of the late Anglo Biblical Institute. I am getting on with a catalogue but it is very tiring work. Books which are not very rare are lent to the Members per parcel or Book Post–
Our copy of Hermes <2> is Part I only. I have had it rebound & have pasted your letter in it
My Dear Sir Yrs truly
W.R. Cooper
H. Fox Talbot Es. F.R.S. &c &c &c
[envelope:]
H. Fox Talbot E. FRS
&c &c &c
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham
Notes:
1. Probably WHFT's ‘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. Hermes: or Classical and Antiquarian Researches, No. 1. (London: Longman, Orme, Green, Brown & Longman, 1838). [See Doc. No: 02915].