Downham Hall Brandon
Septr 10. 1858
Dear Mr Talbot
I have put off writing for some time in hopes of being able to fix the exact day when I might be again in your neighbourhood and at leisure to look in at Laycock Abbey and have a talk with you about Cuneiforms, but as time advances the prospect of such a visit recedes In the present phase of our Indian Govnt I can take very little holiday, and the little that I do take I am obliged to devote to engagements of long standing I have given up therefore any more Wiltshire peregrinations till later in the season and the only chance therefore I see of meeting you again at present is at Leeds, where I shall attend for a few days at any rate the British Association, though I have nothing prepared, which I could submit to the Ethnological Section If you go to Leeds, perhaps you will take Opperts book with you and return it him there A second Livraison is out, but I have not yet had time to run through it When I was in Town the other day, both Norris & Bowler who have charge of all my Lithographical Sheets of Inscriptions were in the country, but I left word for a set to be sent to you on their return I go up myself for some days on Tuesday next
Believe me Ever Yours faithfully
H. Rawlinson
[envelope:]
To/ H. Fox Talbot Esqr
Laycock Abbey
Chippenham
Wilts-