5 Richmond Grove
Barnsbury. N.
25^th Jany 75

My Dear Sir

The Nabonidus ^<1> safe to hand and being set up

Please to let me have your list of contributions as soon as possible as till it comes in I cannot arrange with the other Translators

Do you intend to take the second Nabonidus text? or the Senkereh Nebuchadnezzar ^<2>

have you received your presentation copy sent off last night?

Yrs fal^y
W. R. Cooper

W H Fox Talbot. E. F.R.S. DrL.
&c – &c

[envelope:]
H. Fox Talbot. E. F.R.S. DCL
& & &
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham

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Notes:

1. Probably two among the newly found dated cuneiform tablets brought back by George Smith in 1873 and 1874 and mentioned in George Smith, Assyrian Discoveries (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low and Searle), p. 387. [See Doc. No: 04202].

2. Nebuchadnezzar II, king of the Chaldean dynasty of Babylonia (reigned ca.605– ca.561 BC).