London
16 April 1860.

Dear Sir

I urged Panizzi ^<1> till I almost offended him to issue the sheets at once, but in vain. However as Sir H. ^<2> has resigned his Persian mission, he will soon be at home again, no doubt, and we shall then have them out. Pray keep the [Bavian?] as much longer as you like; and any observations you may make about probable false collocations of words I shall be glad to receive – for the three original copies were very irregularly made, and I was often in much doubt about making them one.

We meet on Saturday next, and then we have no other available meeting till June. The May meeting, being the Anniversary, will be wholly taken up with financial business, and election of new council.

In regard to the [illegible] inscription I would notice that there is an error in the final column about half way down, I have not the copy to refer to here. The word is printed [cuneiform text] & should be [cuneiform text] as I ascertained by a close inspection last week, the Cylinder is not clear, & Rawlinson read [cuneiform text] but it is certainly [cuneiform text] as I see Oppert reads it. From [Hebrew text] [cinzit?] no doubt.

Might we not read your translation of Michoux’s stone next Saturday? It was published many years ago in Paris, by [Millin?], I think, so that it is not under the seal, like the other sheets

I am Dear Sir most truly
Edwin Norris

H Fox Talbot Esq
&c &c

[envelope, annotated by WHFT "Norris":]
H. F. Talbot Esq
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham

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Notes:

1. Sir Anthonio Genesio Maria Panizzi (1797–1879), British Museum Librarian.

2. Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, 1st Baronet (1810–1895), orientalist.