5, Richmond Grove,
Barnsbury, N.
3d Mch. 74
Dear Sir
The third part of your Glossary <1> safely to hand for which accept best thanks. I regret to say that part I has been borrowed without my knowledge and is therefore lost
M Lenormant <2> has just presented us with his “La Magie Etc” I have sent it to be bound Dr Laüth <3> has also sent a copy of his “Moses der Ebræer”. If you can spare a copy of Ménants Grammar <4> it will be most acceptable as I have been many times asked for it
The Society now numbers 250 members.
I hope that your paper on Ishtar <5> will be a long one.
I will send you a copy of Grivals <6> short paper in a few days
My Dear Sir Yrs fally
W. R. Cooper
H. Fox Talbot. Esq F.R.S
&c &c &c
Notes:
1. WHFT, "Contributions towards a Glossary of the Assyrian Language," Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland; part I, n.s. v. 3, 1868, pp. 1-64: part II, n.s. v. 4, 1870, pp. 1-80; part III, n.s. v. 6, 1873, pp. i-lxxx. This series was also issued as three offprints bound into one in 1874.
2. François Lenormant (1837–1883), French archaeologist, La magie chez les Chaldéens et les origines accadiennes (Paris: Maissonneuve, 1874).
3. Franz Joseph Lauth (1822–1895), Moses der Ebraeer: nach zwei aegyptischen Papyrus-Urkunden in hieratischer Schriftart zum ersten Male dargestellt (Mnchen: Druck und Lithographie von Dr. C. Wolf & Sohn, 1868).
4. Joachim Menant (1820–1899), French Assyriologist & magistrate, Exposé des éléments de la grammaire assyrienne (Paris: Imprimerie Impériale, 1868).
5. 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).
6. Probably a misspelling for Joseph Grivel (1810–1876), Swiss Assyriologist.