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Document number: 553
Date: 29 Feb 1876
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: COOPER William Ricketts
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Last updated: 1st September 2003

Dear Sir

Can you give us the Nebuchadnezzar texts? & the Phillips cylinder. <1> We intend to bring out two (2) volumes <2> in July and (2) at Xtmas. if the authors will generously keep us supplied.

Can we use the new texts read before the S.B.A.

Yfy

W.R. Cooper

29/2/76

Notes:

1. Nebuchadnezzar II, king of the Chaldean dynasty of Babylonia (reigned ca.605– ca.561 BC). [See Doc. No: 06543]. WHFT had translated a Babylonian cylinder that belonged to the collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792–1872), antiquary & collector. [See Doc. No: 08575].

2. Records of the Past being English Translations of the Assyrian and Egyptian Monuments (London: Samuel Bagster & Sons).

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