SOCIETY OF BIBLICAL ARCHÆOLOGY
9, Conduit Street, W.
7th Jany 1874
Dear Sir
I am much obliged by your promise of a further paper on Ishtar. <1> is it to come out in the July Part (Vol III. Part 1) or later. please let me know so that I can arrange for the press
Sayces <2> paper has gone to the printer and I do not fear that it will prove amply paid for. excuse my having applied to you. you have been most liberal
A Rev John Finlayson writes to ask if there is a simpler Assyrian Grammar than Ménants, <3> with the characters, which Sayce’s <4> has not. do you know of one?
Records of the Past are out at last. We sold many copies at the Meeting yesterday
Yrs fally
W R Cooper
H. Fox. Talbot. Esq. F.R.S
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Henry Fox Talbot Eq. FRS
&c &c &c
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham
The 237 members includes those elected yesterday
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. Archibald Henry Sayce (1845–1933), Egyptologist & Orientalist.
3. Joachim Menant (1820–1899), French Assyriologist & magistrate, Exposé des éléments de la grammaire assyrienne (Paris: Imprimerie Impériale, 1868).
4. Archibald Henry Sayce, An Assyrian grammar, for comparative purposes (London: 1872).