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Document number: 8137
Date: 28 Jun 1860
Recipient: MOHL Julius von
Author: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Collection: Institut de France Bibliotheque Paris
Collection number: 2984 f. 114
Last updated: 1st September 2003

à M. Mohl

hotel de Londres
rue Castiglioni

le 28 juin 1860

Monsieur

La carte de M. Norris <1> qu’il m’a prié de vous remettre me servira d’introduction, et je me ferai le plaisir de passer chez vous – si vous aurez la bonté de me donner quelques informations sur le progrès des études cunéiformes à Paris Je vous serai bien obligé, je fais en ce moment un petit voyage scientifique et littéraire en France –

Agréez Monsieur l’expression de toute ma consideration –

H. F. Talbot
membre de la société Asiatique de Londres <2>


Translation:

To M. Mohl

Hotel de Londres
Rue Castiglioni

28 June 1860

Sir

Mr Norris’s card, which he asked me to give you, will serve as my introduction, and it will be a pleasure for me to come and see you – I will be much obliged if you could be so kind as to give me some information on the progress if the cuneiform studies in Paris. At present, I am on a scientific and literary trip to France –

Please accept, Sir, the assurance of my highest regards –

H. F. Talbot
Member of the London Asiatic Society


Notes:

1. Dr Edwin Norris (1795–1872), orientalist; Secretary, & Librarian, Royal Asiatic Society.

2. Royal Asiatic Society, London.

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