5, Richmond Grove,
Barnsbury, N.
5th Feby 76
My Dear Sir
As I am now arranging for Vols VII & VIII of Records of the Past <1> I shall be glad to receive your contribution to the Assyrian translations as soon as possible so that we may issue the Vols punctually in July
Your paper <2> was greatly admired at the meeting on Tuesday. Rawlinson, Smith and Cull <3> all spoke but Sir Henry was unable to agree with some portions of your work. especially as regarded the serpent and the supreme deity. it excited great applause when I stated that the paper would appear in a fortnight
Yrs
W.R. Cooper
H. Fox. Talbot Esqr F.R.S.Notes:
1. WHFT published several translations in ‘Assyrian Texts’, Records of the Past, being English Translations of the Assyrian and Egyptian Monuments, v.7, (London: Samuel Bagster & Sons, 1876): ‘The Standard Inscription of Ashur-Akh-Bal’, pp. 9–14; ‘Monolith of Ashur-Akh-Bal, King of Assyria’, pp. 15–20; ‘A Prayer and a Vision, from the Annals of Assurbanibal, King of Assyria’, pp. 65–68; ‘Senkereh Inscription of Nebuchadnezzar’, pp. 69–72; ‘The Birs-Nimrud Inscription of Nebuchadnezzar’, pp. 73–78; ‘The Revolt in Heaven’, pp. 123–128.
2. See Doc. No: 00909.
3. Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, 1st Baronet (1810–1895), orientalist, George Smith (1840–1876), Assyriologist, and possibly Cullemore [see Doc. No: 06237].