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Document number: 9663
Date: 14 Jun 1870
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: SCHMIDT Johan Henrik Gamst Valdemar
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Last updated: 1st September 2003

Copenhague.
(Denmark)

14 June 1870

Sir!

I hope You will kindly excuse that I ask You a favour.

Yours valuable papers on assyrian subjects are not in Copenhagan, we don’t have the Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature and the Journal of sacred litterature –

I am just now publishing in Danish A. historie of Asea and Egypt according to cuneiform and hieroglyphic monuments which I give in the text with transcriptions and translation. I am now in printing the literature and I should like very much to make the citation of yours very valuable translations and commentaries*, that my readers could find it. (It is used that <when?> a foreign book is quoted in a scientific danish work, that is bought by the Library). We have here The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of course.

I will be very much obliged to You if You would send me the list filled up. – I suppose You have the Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature and the Journal of Sacred Literature at the hand. If not I beg You to excuse my liberty.

It would be me a pleasure If You would receive a copy of my book which will be published firstly in danish and afterwards in french. That will be a book 700 pages in octavo

I regret that I never during any of my seven visits to England <sic>

I remain, Sir, with the highest consideration
Yours most obedient servant

Valdemar Schmidt
Professor and Chevalier of the Dannebrog etc.

Adr. Prindsens Palais
Copenhagen
(Denmark).

Mr Fox Talbot F.R.S.L. F.R.A S.
Etc Etc.

London

* I give a revew of all articles containing translations of assyrian texts

Assyrian works of
Mr. Fox Talbot.
beg to fill up.

Inscription of Bellino (Layard Inscription pl 63 and 64) in the Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature new series Vol <space> p <space> to <space> London 18 … 8vo

Inscription of Esarhaddon (Rawlinson pl 45–47) in the Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature new series vol. <space> p… to … London 18<space>
in the Journal of Sacred Literature … Series vol 1… p. <space> to <space> London.

Inscription of Nabormedos (Rawlinson pl 69) Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature new series vol… p. <space> to <space> London 18…

Inscription of Nabukudurusur Rawlinson pl 65 ? Transaction of the Royal Society of Literature

?? Inscription of Neriglissor <1> (pl 67) Transaction of the Royal Society of Litt.??

Notes:

1. A misspelling for Neriglissar, a king of Babylon who ruled between 560 and 556 BC.