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Document number: 36
Date: Mon 30 Mar 1868
Dating: based on envelope and calendar
Postmark: 30 Mar 1868
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: SMITH George (2)
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection number: envelope 22010
Last updated: 4th June 2013

British Museum
Monday

My dear Sir

I send you 32 p.p. more of the Assurbanipal I will write any and give you the examples of Cuneiform sign ft036 = uhalliq it occurs several times – I have altered my opinion about the son of Assurbanipal <1> I now think Assurbanipal had three successors before the destruction of Nineveh in haste

Yours respectfully
George Smith

H. F. Talbot Esq

[envelope:]
H. Fox Talbot
Esq
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham
Wilts
Brit Mus
[illegible]

Notes:

1. Assurbanipal, Assyrian King, reigned from 668 to 627 BC.

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