Royal Asiatic Society,
5, New Burlington Street,
London
15 Jany 1857.
My dear Sir,
I believe the red-tape (metaphysical) is all unwound, and that you will receive the inscriptions <1> as soon as you get this. I have been go-between at least half-a-dozen times and before I left the Museum this day, I saw the packet come up for you. They have been ready more than a week, but consent had not been given under the forms required by official precision.
I my last <2> I alluded to the preparation of them and the other inscription for the lithographs, in doing which a good deal of my time is taken up; in the case of the Tiglath Pileser Ins. for instance, four prisms[?] have been carefully collected, all broken in parts, though two nearly complete; the others quite fragmentary. I fear the learned who study the inscription in print will hardly give me credit for the trouble we have had in getting them ready.
I am my dear Sir yours sincerely
Edwin Norris
Fox Talbot Esq
&c &c &c
[envelope]
Fox Talbot, Esq
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham
Notes:
1. See Doc. No. 07333
2. See Doc. No: 07341.