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Gold to Silver in those days was 1 to 10, and that the 

 usual rate of interest was 2 or 3 per cent, per month. 



You will find translations of some hundreds of these 

 tablets in a work recently published by Oppert and 

 Menant at Paris, and called I think Documens juridiques, 

 etc., and for the Egibi banking accounts you must also 

 consult Boscawen's papers in the 5th and 6th volumes 

 of the Transactions of the Society of Biblical Archaeology, 

 and Bagster's Records of the Past, generally, but particu- 

 larly vol. vii. p. 111. 



I am sorry not to be able to give you a more satis- 

 factory reply. — Yours sincerely, 



H. E. Rawlinson. 



A common interest in labour questions, some 

 decisions that he had given as an arbiter in labour 

 disputes, and a general desire to ameliorate the 

 conditions of the poor had drawn him much to- 

 gether with Cardinal Manning. The following 

 letter from the Cardinal will show that their 

 propositions were by no means only of a large 

 vagueness, but occasionally went very closely 

 into detail. 



Archbishop's House, Westminster, S.W., 

 July 4th, 1879. 



My dear Sir John Lubbock — I cannot find a paper 

 I had on the state of the Butts and Cisterns in the homes 

 of the poor. They are often pestilential. It is not 

 enough to say that they ought to clean them. The 

 water supply can be laid on and ought to be laid on, etc., 

 so as to need no cleansing. There ought to be no Butts. 

 I will try also to send you the Death rate ; but I can say 

 with certainty that it is double in the homes of the 

 working men as compared with the upper class. 



I think a Public Meeting of bona fide working-men 

 who pay water rates, from all parts of London, would be 

 useful. Exeter Hall would cost about £30, and some 

 six of us might answer for it. — Believe me, always yours 

 very truly, H. E., Cardinal Archbishop. 



It does not appear, however, that any active 



