5 Richmond Grove
Barnsbury N.
22d Oct 74
My Dear Sir
I am very glad to receive your paper which I had already announced for the Meeting of the 3d Novr–
Will you extend it to 32 pages in two sheets for the greater convenience of making up the volume and will you further allow 100 Copies to be printed off separately afterwards for the use of the classes which I hope to get established I have news of another Assyriologist in embryo besides Dr Boscawen <1> who is really doing good work
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It has been suggested that if you have no objection the sign |= ||= sak should be repeated instead of the letter A as an abbreviation, in the same manner as the character –|||| |– has been repeated on p. 25
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Do you know whether the liepsec Cuneiform Type of 181 characters is sufficiently complete to be used in the compilation of An Assyrian Grammar as in that case I know a printer who would undertake the entire risk of printing, which Harrisons will not do. Sayce <2> is hard at work upon the Grammar already
My Dear Sir
Yours truly
W R Cooper
H. Fox Talbot. E. FRS <3>Notes:
1. William St Chad Boscawen (1854–1913), Assyriologist & author.
2. Archibald Henry Sayce (1845–1933), Egyptologist & Orientalist. [See Doc. No: 03980].
3. Written in another hand.