<crest of E and N intertwined>
6 Michael’s Grove SW.
28th March 1871
My dear Sir,
Thanks for your letter of the 23d instant, to which I should have replied sooner, but have been delayed by a fit of lassitude, uncommon to me, almost amounting to disability: but it is now going off. – I am glad you approve my uktannasu in p 872, I was rather pleased with it myself. The other passage you mention ana nil<h?>i-su dari. I have made essays at, in pp 26<6?> & 557 neither quite satisfactory. I am much inclined to follow your reading of mmmannu, but where can I found <sic> your quotation of <cuneiform> butter of the cow? it would be conclusive, but I do not know where to look for it. I am inclined to agree with you about the city Meru, but it would seem to be too far south for Media Wilson in his Ariana Antigua identifies with the ancient Sel<eu?>cia.
I have just dispatched the last bit of copy containing the close (I hope) of my letter M. I am quite weary of it: I think it will reach 916 or thereabout above 200 pages. I fear N will fill up my IIId volume.
Yours faithfully
Edwin Norris
H. Fox Talbot Esq
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