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Document number: 2796
Date: 13 May 1874
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: VAUX William Sandys Wright
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection number: Acc 22547 [envelope only]
Last updated: 18th April 2012

Royal Society of Literature,
4, St Martin’s Place, W. C.
4. Che

May 13. 1874

Dear Mr Talbot

Thank you for your letter <1> – I dont think Harrison <2> will make any objection to lend our Printer J. E. Taylor & Co as much cuneiform type as may be wanted – for your paper –

Quite at your leisure – will you enlighten my ignorance on this point? On the plan commonly called [illegible] Susa – Layard <3> series 2. Pl. 49 (or 48) is a brief Legend – one word apparently – in Cuneiform.

Does this word read Susa? Am I justified in saying that the plan is known to be Susa from the name there on?

Ever sincerely Yrs
W. S. W. Vaux

[envelope:]
H. Fox Talbot Esq
FRS
Laycock Abbey
Chippenham
Wilts


Notes:

1. Letter not located.

2. Of Harrison & Sons, Printers, London.

3. This is a reference to the inscriptions copied at Susa, north of Ahwaz, Southwest Iran, by Sir Austen Henry Layard (1817–1894), politician and one of the excavators of Nineveh.

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