December 1933–June 1934

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the right-handed drive will not come up.

He has very plainly indicated that if the progress of work seems to justify it, he will exceed the initial allotment of $1,500. I can't, however, ask him now to put up any additional amount to enable Miss Cox to get over, though both Mrs. Dohan and I appreciate very much how enormously effective her presence would be. Nevertheless, I have hopes (not very great ones to be sure) that I may be able to raise the necessary moneys from another source. But please do not count on her presence unless I cable.

Since your letters came I've not had a chance to get in touch with McFadden. But I'll do my best to get him to bring the dumpy level and the necessary stationery.

I hesitated not a little before landing upon you this, perhaps somewhat unusual, undertaking. But I talked it over with Mrs. Dohan and my doubts were resolved. I believe you will appreciate our position and the future results for which we are aiming as much as for immediate successes, and that I need not develop this side of the question. The disbursement of all funds is in McFadden's hands, which is the way he wished it, and which may indeed more easily lead to his spending more money than he initially indicated, and for this reason is not so bad, though on the whole I should have preferred him to have turned finances over to us to handle in the normal way. I shall be able to advise him before he sails as to how to handle this situation agreeably, and I feel sure that this aspect of the problem will present no great difficulty.

I do much appreciate your willingness to cooperate in this out of the ordinary undertaking. To me the pleasantest aspect is that once again the Museum has the satisfaction of having you associated with its work.

Yours sincerely,

Handwritten: signature

Horace H. F. Jayne DIRECTOR.

B. H. Hill, Esq., 9 Plutarch Street, Athens, Greece.

Stamp: 20 Mar 1934