_Les Lettres de Hammurapi à Sin-idinnam, transcription, traduction et commentaire, précédées d’une étude sur deux caractères du style assyro-babylonien_, by F. C. JEAN (Paris, J. Gabalda, 1913), gives an idea of the subject. P. S. LANDERSDORFER, in 1908, had edited _Altbabylonische Privatbriefe, transkribiert, übersetzt und kommentiert, nebst einer Einleitung und 4 Registern_ (Paderborn, Schöningh), and G. A. BARTON gave an article _On an old Babylonian Letter addressed to Lushtamar_ in the _Journal of the American Oriental Society_, pp. 220-22. A. SCHOLLMEYER wrote on _Altbabylonische Privatbriefe_ in _Babyloniaca_, vi, pp. 57-64, 1912, and in 1911 published _Neuveröffentlichte altbabylonische Briefe und ihre Bedeutung für die Kultur des Orients: Sechs Vorträge vor der Hildesheimer Generalversammlung_ (Köln, P. Bachem). E. EBELING contributed to the _Revue d’Assyriologie_, 1913, pp. 15 ff., 105-56, articles on _Altbabylonische Briefe_. _The First Letter of Rîm-Sin, King of Larsa_, was published by ST. LANGDON in the _Proceedings of the Society for Biblical Archaeology_, 1911, pp. 221-2. The period of the Third or Kassite Dynasty has not yet yielded much. H. RADAU made as much as possible out of a number of fragments found at Nippur in vol. xvii, 1 of Series A of _The Publications of the Babylonian Expedition of the University of Pennsylvania_ called _Letters to Cassite Kings from the Temple Archives of Nippur_ (1908). Very little more is known of Epistolary Literature till we reach the Sargonide Dynasty in Assyria. With the Library of Ashurbanipal at Nineveh were found a large number of letters and dispatches, alike royal, public and private, Assyrian and Neo-babylonian, which early attracted notice. S. A. SMITH published a number from the collections in the British Museum in his _Assyrian Letters from the Royal Library at Nineveh, transcribed, translated, and explained_ (Leipzig, Pfeiffer, 1887-1888), and in _Miscellaneous Assyrian Texts of the British Museum with Textual Notes_ (Leipzig, Pfeiffer, 1887), besides a series of articles in the _Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology_ for 1887-1888 called _Assyrian Letters_. The present writer dealt with _Sennacherib’s Letters to his Father Sargon_, in the _Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology_, 1895, pp. 220-39. FR. DELITZSCH in the _Beiträge zur Assyriologie_, vol. i, pp. 185-248, 613-31, and vol. ii, pp. 19-62, under the title _Zur assyrisch-babylonischen Briefliteratur_, laid deep the foundations of the study of letters, editing many fresh texts (1890-1894). H. WINCKLER published a large number of letters in his _Sammlung von Keilschrifttexten_ (Leipzig, Pfeiffer, 1894). T. G. PINCHES published _Zwei assyrische Briefe_ (Leipzig, Pfeiffer, 1887).