Brompton
20th April, 1867.
My dear Sir
I have just received from Dr Rost your letter of yesterday <1> relatine [sic] to corrections made in your paper. Those corrections were made by me as Honorary Secretary of the Society, and they consisted entirely of Typographical errors; one of which was the misplacing of a line near the foot of a page, and others the ordinary error of a printer in putting î instead of ñ at the end of Hebrew words. They were so few in all, and so exclusively typographical that I told the printer it was hardly necessary to refer them to you.
In your last letter to me you expressed a wish to know the result of the Hincks petition;<2> I had a letter from Governor Hincks <3> a day or two ago, in which he tells me it is still under consideration I fear it was delayed too long before presenting, but there is still hope left. Hincks left no more MS available. his family sent me two bundles of papers all that could be found, and they contained nothing more than old memoranda, not as he had jotted down previous to writing the papers he has printed. I read them through carefully, in hopes of getting some valuable notes, but found absolutely nothing; so that we can expect no more of his really valuable grammar. His brother tells me it was his habit to trust almost wholly to his memory.
may not [cuneiform] of Fig v.42, be “powerful chief, a giant; see [hebrew?] of Genesis vi.4. [hamtic?] may be proud, see 5th conjugation of [illegible], one derivation is [illegible] which Golius renders viz potens, tyrannus.
As your time is short I am writing at near midnight, so as to be in the post-office to-morrow I hope this may account for these slovenly blots,
Yours faithfully
Edwin Norris
Notes:
1. Reinhold Rost (1822–1896), German orientalist. Letter not located.
2. Rev Edward Hincks (19 Aug 1792 – 3 Dec 1866), Irish clergyman; Egyptologist & Orientalist.
3. Sir Francis Hincks (1807-1885), Irish-born Canadian politician and governor of British Guiana.