67 Lincolns Inn Fields
Jan 20/ 74
Dear Sir
The ‘Academy’ tells me that on Jan. 6 you read a paper on some Illustrations of the Book of Daniel from the Assyrian Inscriptions, <1> furnishing Evidence of extreme forms of punishment &c
Will you allow me a perusal of your paper?
I am preparing the Commentary on that Book for the ‘Speaker’s’ Bible, & it would be a matter of great interest to the reader if – through your discoveries – I might refer to & quote from your paper.
I have always felt that the Inscriptions would – as they were deciphered – furnish such illustrations as you have just published & I should be only too glad if – thanks to your help – I might assist in inducing those, who still impugn the decipherment of the Inscriptions, to reconsider what is so replete with interest & instruction.
I am, dear Sir, very faithfully yrs
J. M. Fuller
Notes:
1. This was a summary of the papers read at the Society of Biblical Archaeology on 6 January. WHFT's contribution was "On Some Illustrations of the Book of Daniel from Assyrian Inscriptions," The Academy, no. 88, 10 January 1874, pp. 43-44.