Lacock Abbey
July 11
Dr Sir
The alteration of one sentence which I have made, was necessary, because my researches into the Cuneiform literature are of a much later date than that spoken of in the text.<1>
Yours truly
H.F. Talbot
Notes:
1.This was in the first of the series, "Sketches of Eminent Photographers", published with a woodcut in The British Journal of Photography, v. 11 no. 217, 1 July 1864, pp. 320-321; v. 11 no. 219, 15 July 1864, pp. 242-243; v. 11 no. 222, 5 August 1864, pp. 278-279; v. 11 no. 224, 19 August 1864, p. 303; v. 11 no. 227, 9 September 1864, pp. 340-341; v. 11 no. 233, 21 October 1864, pp. 412-413.