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Document number: 5432
Date: 27 Dec 1864
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: COXE William H
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Last updated: 1st September 2003

17. Beaumont St Oxford

Dear Sir <ill. del>

I have tried the method of transcription that you suggest but I find it is more confusing it in these and I really cannot write it so quick as my own.

May not the character <cuneiform> stand either for <cuneiform> or <cuneiform> in the latter case it wd mean I suppose "Pani" "in the presence of" or "Witnessed by"

I forget exactly how the name of Selencus is written but isn’t the second group a variation of <cuneiform>? And the third stands I think either for Ki or Ku –

I will send you some "pincushion" tablets as soon as I get back to London –

Believe me yours very Truly

W. H. Coxe

H. F. Talbot Esqre

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