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Royal Asiatic Society,

5, New Burlington Street, W.,

London,

27^th Dec^r 1861.

Dear Sir,

I beg to inclose receipt for the amount of your reduced composition.

The printer has not yet sent in his bill, so I can say nothing on that head as yet.

I have got from the French Government the published parts of Oppert’s work on Assyrian Antiquities. Unfortunately, the edition of Botta’s work is exhausted; and in lieu of it, we have only received the expression of M. Walewski’s regret.

Believe me, dear Sir, faithfully yours,

J W Redhouse

H. F. Talbot, Esq.