December 1933–June 1934

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On the chance that you may be able without too great inconvenience, and are willing, to act for me in the matter of obtaining owners' consent to excavation in their fields, I enclose a number of copies of the printed form we used in 1931-32. We filled them out and had them signed in duplicate, one copy being handed the Colonial Secretary with the application for the official Permit, the other being kept in my files. Of course only the copy sent to Government really matters and the duplicates need not be blanks enough. I hope that we can get owners' consent for most of the hill from the start, but if there is any other area that you would advise us to investigate or any that you would like us to investigate by way of supplement to your own work, I shall be very grateful if you will get owners' signatures for that, [handwritten: tmx] or those, areas,too. All the decisions you make in my behalf are hereby beforehand declared wholly satisfactory, so far as I am concerned.

I enclose an application for the Permit which, when the proper date has been inserted the owners' consents attached, may perhaps do for presentation to the Colonial Secretary. If this application will not do, and I must designate fields and name owners in the text I sign, will you let me have the necessary data so that the inevitable delay may be as brief as possible.

In the application enclosed I name April 4 as the day for beginning work, that being the earliest day likely to be possible in April, but since it falls in your Holy Week I imagine that little would actually be done before the 11th.

Either I must be considerably in your debt for bills paid in my behalf or you must have been troubled more than once by creditors of mine coming to you in my stead, since I last sent you a cheque more than a year ago. I have been rather expecting word of the exact amount of my indebtedness, but have now come to the conclusion that a statement sent must have been lost in the mails, for I have lately learned of another letter from Cyprus that never reached me. So I now enclose a cheque for £10, expecting it to cover my present indebtedness and leave something against expenses you may incur in connection with the Curium Permit. You will let me know promptly, will you not?, when another cheque is needed. It is not fair that I should be causing you to advance money in addition to taking all the trouble I am forced to ask of you.

I have received, and read with much interest, the Annual Report for 1933. You are to be congratulated on the good work accomplished and on this clear, readable presentation of it.

In order to catch one of the rare direct posts to Cyprus I have had to write this letter without waiting for your reply to my second cablegram. If it turns out that for any reason Curium is not to be available for us you will of course treat several paragraphs of this letter as cancelled.

Please let me thank you for seeing that my request for extension of the Lapithos permit was duly presented to the Colonial Secretary. My program for Lapithos remains unchanged except that I shall go there after Curium, if I go to the latter at all. To have four or five months in Cyprus instead of one or two would be very agreeable. So I am hoping that the Curium project may be retion with it is that I cannot myself leave here before about the end of March.