[engraved address:]
Ethnological Society of London,
4, S^t Martin’s Place. W.C.

April 30 1867.

My dear Sir

I read a paper at the meeting of the Royal Society of Literature on Wednesday May 8 – on the Bilingual Cuneiform Tablets in the British Museum. I hope you may be in London at the time.

I do not think the language of the left hand column of these tablets is an ancient language which having become dead as a vernacular tongue, was preserved by the learned of Mesopotamia. I even doubt its being a Turanian Language. These heretical doctrines will I dare say give rise to some discussion and I hope you will be present; there appear to be so very few who have applied themselves to the subject.

Believe me to remain Yours very truly
D. M. Nash

My London address is
22 Holles Street
Cavendish Square

H. F. Talbot Esq^r

[envelope:]
[annotated in WHFT's hand:] Nash
H. Fox Talbot Esq^r
13 Great Stuart Street
Edinburgh