SOCIETY OF BIBLICAL ARCHÆOLOGY
9, CONDUIT STREET, W.
5 Richmond Grove
Barnsbury. N
13th Augt 1874
My Dear Sir
I hope that you will supply us with as many texts as possible for the Records of the Past, <1> as in consequence of the Revisions rendered necessary by the discovery of new texts, Mr Smith <2> will not be able to let us have his contributions in time. So unless we have 40 pages from you the issue will be arrested please assist in this extremity.
I have written to Mr Schrœder <3> for a Translation, or rather a reprint of his translation of the Babylonian text of the Behistun Inscription. <4> Oppert <5> declines to give us anything unless we pay for it, which at present we cannot do Mr Sayce <6> is nobly coming forward, and Sir Henry <7> has promised some translations
I hope that you received your copy of the Transactions <8> last night. pardon a Secretary’s vanity but is it not a nice thick volume?
I remain My Dear Sir
Yrs fally
W. R. Cooper
& & &
[envelope:]
to be forwarded
H. Fox Talbot Eqr. F.R.S
&c &c &c
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham
Notes:
1. Records of the Past being English Translations of the Assyrian and Egyptian Monuments (London: Samuel Bagster & Sons).
2. George Smith (1840–1876), Assyriologist.
3. Probably Professor Dr Eberhard Schrader, German pioneer Assyriologist.
4. See Doc. No: 02730.
5. Prof Julius Oppert (1825–1905), German Assyriologist, active in Paris.
6. Archibald Henry Sayce (1845–1933), Egyptologist & Orientalist.
7. Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, 1st Baronet (1810–1895), orientalist.
8. Transactions of the Society of Biblical Archaeology (London).