5, Richmond Grove,
Barnsbury, N.
25th May 1875
Dear Sir
Please to send the Ashurakhbal <1> at once am I to understand that you decline to translate the war of the evil spirits & Michaux stones? <2>
Your new deluge <3> text will be just the thing for our July meeting, please send it on
Ys flly
W. R. Cooper
H. Fox Talbot Esq. FRS.
Notes:
1. WHFT, The Standard Inscription of Ashur-Akh-Bal, Records of the Past being English Translations of the Assyrian and Egyptian Monuments (London: Samuel Bagster & Sons), ‘The Standard Inscription of Ashur-Akh-Bal’, pp. 9–14; ‘Monolith of Ashur-Akh-Bal, King of Asyria’, pp. 15–20.
2. WHFT, ‘War of the Seven Evil Spirits Against Heaven’, Records of the Past being English Translations of the Assyrian and Egyptian Monuments (London: Samuel Bagster & Sons), v.5, 1875, pp. 161–166; Michaux stones, dating from the time of Tiglath Pileser I.
3. In May of 1875, WHFT read a commentary on the Deluge tablet before the Society of Biblical Archaeology, which was published in Transactions of the Society of Biblical Archaeology, v.4, part 1, June 1875, p. 49–83, and also privately as, Commentary on the Deluge Tablet, together with a second tablet in the British Museum relating apparently to the Deluge (London: Harrison & Sons, 1875).