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).
R. F. Harper has continued to edit the Assyrian and Babylonian Letters belonging to the Kouyunjik Collections of the British Museum, vol. i, 1892; vol. ii, 1893; vol. iii, 1896; vol. iv, 1896; vol. v, 1900; vol. vi, 1902; vol. vii, 1902; vol. viii, 1902; vol. ix, 1909; vol. x, 1911; vol. xi, 1911; vol. xii, 1913; vol. xiii, 1913 (Chicago University Press; Luzac & Co., London), which will contain all the British Museum collections from Nineveh. These copies have been made with the greatest care, and constitute the chief source of this material up to the present time. Numerous works have been built upon them as foundation. Christopher Johnston wrote on The Epistolary Literature of the Assyrians and Babylonians (Baltimore, 1898), reprinted from Journal of the American Oriental Society. E. Behrens published in 1906 his Assyrisch-babylonische Briefe kultischen Inhalts aus der Sargonidenzeit (Leipzig, Pries, 1905). Lehmann-Haupt gave Zwei unveröffentlichte Keilschrifttexte in Hilprecht Anniversary Volume (1909), pp. 256-8.
In 1910 came M. Zeitlin’s Le style administratif chez les Assyriens; choix de lettres assyriennes et babyloniennes, transcrites, traduites et accompagnées de notes (Paris, Geuthner). In the Zeitschrift für Assyriologie C. Bezold gave Zwei assyrische Berichte (vol. xxvi, 1912, p. 114-25).
In 1911, E. G. Klauber wrote Zur babylonisch-assyrischen Briefliteratur in Babyloniaca, iv, pp. 180-86; and in 1912 Zur Politik und Kultur der Sargonidenzeit: Untersuchungen auf Grand der Brieftexte in the January and July numbers of vol. xxviii of the American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures. In the January number of this volume also appeared L. Waterman’s Textual Notes on the Letters of the Sargon Period. A most valuable contribution to an obscure period of Ashurbanipal’s reign was made by H. H. Figulla, Der Briefwechsel Bêlibni’s: Historische Urkunden aus der Zeit Asurbanipals, in Mitteilungen der Vorderasiatischen Gesellschaft (Leipzig, Hinrichs, 1912). E. G. Klauber, in 1910, published Assyrisches Beamtentum nach Briefen aus der Sargonidenzeit (Leipzig, Hinrichs), and in Der alte Orient, xii, Heft 2, Keilschriftbriefe: Staat und Gesellschaft in der babylonisch-assyrischen Briefliteratur (Leipzig, Hinrichs, 1911). V. Scheil under the title Diplomatica dealt with similar texts in the Hilprecht Anniversary Volume, pp. 873 ff.
Letters of the Neo-Babylonian period are numerous but not much published. R. C. Thompson published Late Babylonian Letters (London, Luzac & Co., 1906) with translations, &c. Fr. Martin gave Lettres néo-babyloniennes (Paris, Champion, 1909), and Trois lettres néo-babyloniennes in the Hilprecht Anniversary Volume, 1909. In the Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology, 1911, pp. 157-8, T. G. Pinches published Two late Babylonian Letters.