7, Trinity Terrace,
Ventnor,
<manuscript> 17^h May <printed> 18 <manuscript> 77

My dear Sir

Thanks for both your texts the Volume ^<1> can be closed now as Oppert ^<2> has just sent in a supply of late Persian texts

I will see and get Lenormants ^<3> book sent down in a day or two if it is not lent out, if it is I will call it in

Bagster ^<4> written to, thanks

Y f^y

W. R. Cooper

W. H Fox Talbot. E. FRS

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Notes:

1. Records of the Past being English Translations of the Assyrian and Egyptian Monuments (London: Samuel Bagster & Sons). [See Doc. No: 01713].

2. Prof Julius Oppert (1825–1905), German Assyriologist, active in Paris.

3. François Lenormant (1837–1883), French archaeologist.

4. Jonathan Bagster (1813–1872), publisher, London.