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Document number: 10072
Date: 15 Oct 1860
Recipient: PANIZZI Anthonio Genesio Maria
Author: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Collection: British Museum, London - Archives
Last updated: 5th June 2014

[added in another hand:] 18

[added in another hand:] C. 27 Oct.

[added in another hand:] P

[receiving stamp with number added in ink:] British Museum 16 Oct. 1860 No 8608

Lacock Abbey Chippenham
Oct. 15 / 60

D Sir

Having communicated with Sir H. Rawlinson through Mr Norris, I find there is no objection on his part, to my proposed cooperation in deciphering some of the Cuneiform inscriptions in the Museum. I will therefore be very much obliged to you to obtain the sanction of the Trustees as proposed in your last letter, and remain <1>

Dr Sir Yours very truly
H. F. Talbot

A. Panizzi Esq.


Notes:

1. In the Trustees minutes of 27 October, they recorded that they "Read letters dated the 6th (Doc. No: 10071) and 15th inst. from Mr. Fox Talbot, offering his services in deciphering occasionally, some of the Assyrian Cuneiform Inscriptions." On 31 October, Panizzi informed WHFT about their positive decision - see Doc. No: 08233. On 25 October, Rawlinson had written to Panizzi: "I saw Mr Fox Talbot last week and told him that there was plenty of work for a dozen decipherers at the British Museum and that I should be very glad of any assistance he could render in examining and copying the hundreds, or I might say thousands of tablets, which are stored away on the shelves of the gallery adjoining the medal rooms, and which I have never yet had time even to look them over- It would be inconvenient and irregular, as he has no share in the Editorial responsibility, that he should interfere with the tablets in our special room at which Mr Norris and myself are at present at work, and indeed there is no place this this apartment for an Extra hand, as we are already uncomfortably crowded, but if Mr Fox Talbot could be provided with a seat and a little elbow room in some other part of the Museum, he might do good service by overhauling the multitudinous Cuneiform documents upstairs, which have been hitherto but very imperfectly examined-". The British Museum Archives, London.

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