Society of Biblical Archæology,
9 Conduit Street, W.
(Assyrian and Egyptian Translations.)
5. Richmond Grove <1>
Barnsbury. N.
8th April 1875.
Dear Sir
I am glad to hear of your new paper. <2> I hope that it will be a long one as it would be most desirable to issue a good commentary on the deluge Tablet at once and the new part will be ready in July promptly
A valuable Tablet containing the titles of Ishtar <3> has just been translated for the Records of the Past by Mr Sayce. <4> I shall be glad to receive your other contributions for this volume (V) as soon as possible since it also must appear in July.
The New Assyrian Grammar <5> will be out at the close of the month
Yrs fthlly
W. R. Cooper
H. Fox Talbot. Esq. F.R.S
[envelope:]
H. Fox Talbot Es. F.R.S. &c &c &c
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham
Notes:
1. Over-written by hand.
2. WHFT, Commentary on the Deluge Tablet, together with a second tablet in the British Museum relating apparently to the Deluge (London: Harrison & Sons, 1875).
3. WHFT had published ‘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).
4. Archibald Henry Sayce (1845–1933), Egyptologist & Orientalist.
5. A. H. Sayce, An elementary grammar; with full syllabary and progressive reading book, of the Assyrian language in the cuneiform type (London: S. Bagster and Sons, 1875).