Correspondence·PU-Mu 1050, Box 1, folder 3·July–December 1934

July–December 1934

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Typed and handwritten in English. Every line is transcribed, and the text sits beside the scan.

Scan 128 of correspondence PU-Mu 1050, Box 1, folder 3 (July–December 1934), typed and handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 1, folder 3, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 128 of 142

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to be afraid of the temperatures in June: July and August are the bad months.

I wish that it were possible, in view of the short time we have for active excavation, for me to take two or three men, and sink trial pits in the regions which look promising, so as to have the information ready when we all gather for the main season; but I suppose that that is out of the question. I should like to look at the stratification of Aghia Anna, the Cyclopean wall below it, and Apollo, and could do all three in two weeks with Christo, Takoumis, and two women. But I daresay that that will have to wait until later.

65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain

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