human
I am, for a week past, resting from Berber, having written to M. d'Avézac in Paris to ask whether a report I heard is true, that he is preparing a dictionary of it. I have ordered an Amharic grammar, too, and want to compare them, but I abhor the Ethiopic type!.... I cannot get Kitto to tell me whether the sale of the _Cyclopaedia_ is satisfactory.
gpt
I have lately spoken at a meeting of the Friends of Ireland, and have sent to the _Guardian_ newspaper here, [Footnote: Manchester Guardian.] in reply to their demand that I would specify some plan, a paper on _Fixity of Tenure_ for the cottiers of Ireland. I feel no doubt that this must ere long become the great Irish question, of even more interest than the ecclesiastical one....
human
Berber
gpt
I am again at work at the Berber MS., which I have not touched since the 1st October. The Royal Asiatic Society have accepted my offer to edit it. At present their pages are occupied with the history of Darius Hystaspis from the rocks at (I think) Besittoon, near Hemadon--the most curious document which recent research has brought to light, and, I am told, confirming in detail the accounts of Herodotus.