5, Richmond Grove,
Barnsbury, N.
14th Augt 1874
Dear Sir
I am much obliged to you for your kind letter <of?> to days date and will call upon you at the Museum on Tuesday next
Sir Henry <1> has promised the original text cylinder of Tiglath Pileser, <2> the one jointly translated by yourself and three other learned men. what other texts he will give I know not, but I believe they will be some of the unpublished tablets from the Daily Telegraph expedition Mr Rodwell <3> will give not Nebuchadnezzar <4> but a Neriglissar <5> text, and one of Assur azir pal, but of course his version will be examined first before it is printed in in <sic> the R of P. <6> Mr Rodwell is a very able Arabic and Amharic Scholar. his address is on the other leaf
Schrœders <7> German translation of the Sycthic <sic> text of the Behistun Inscription <8> is the one which I have written for. We can get it retranslated into English without much trouble if the author consents
I shall be glad to have a reprint and completion of your Assyrian Hymns and also the Sargon Myth
Smith <9> does not withold <sic> the Deluge, but only the Assurbanipal (30 or 40 pages) and Berosus (16 pages)
I remain Dear Sir Yours fally
W. R. Cooper
H. Fox Talbot. Esq. DCL FRS.Rev. J. M. Rodwell, MA
28, Fellows Road
South Hampstead
N.W.
Notes:
1. Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, 1st Baronet (1810–1895), orientalist.
2. Both WHFT and Rawlinson worked on the inscriptions of Tiglath Pileser I. WHFT translated (March 1857) the inscriptions of a cylinder dating from the reign of the Assyrian King Tiglath Pileser I (1115–1077 BC). Rawlinson published the same year Inscription of Tiglath Pileser I., King of Assyria, B.C. 1150 (London: Royal Asiatic Society: J.W. Parker, 1857).
3. Rev John Medows Rodwell (1808–1900), orientalist.
4. Nebuchadnezzar II, King of the Chaldean dynasty of Babylonia (reigned ca.605– ca.561 BC).
5. A king of Babylon who ruled between 560 and 556 BC.
6. Records of the Past being English Translations of the Assyrian and Egyptian Monuments (London: Samuel Bagster & Sons).
7. Dr Eberhard Schrader (1836–1908), German orientalist & theologian.
8. Behistun Inscription recorded King Darius suppression of a rebellion. [See Doc. No: 02730].
9. George Smith (1840–1876), Assyriologist, The Chaldean Account of the Deluge, reprinted from the “Transactions of the Society of Biblical Archæology” (London: British Museum, 1873).