Royal Asiatic Society
5, New Burlington Street
London
3^d Nov^r 1856

Dear Sir

I have put your name up; ^<1> it will be read over on the 15 inst, & again on the 6^th December after which you will have an official communication of the result. I find your name in the Royal Society’s List ^<2> as William H. &c how do wish it to be put? I see you sign H. only.

If you look at p.xxx. of the Society’s Report of 1852 of which I forward you a copy by this day’s post, you will see that Sir Henry printed a good bit of a translation of Taylor’s Cylinder, ^<3> of which he had a cast. It was that to which I alluded principally.

I am Dear Sir Yours very faithfully
Edwin Norris

H. Fox Talbot E
&c &c

[envelope: blindstamp on flap, RAS]
H. Fox Talbot, Esq
Lacock Abbey
n^r Chippenham.

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Notes:

1. For membership in the Royal Asiatic Society.

2. Royal Society of London list of members.

3. Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, 1^st Baronet (1810–1895), orientalist, in the Transactions of the Royal Asiatic Society.