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 28 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 28 of 142

[margin left: I hope this would be not much later than april.] go to the Cyprus museum, and thus I might en route have the benefit of your detailed criticism, if you could give the time. I had thought of a publication something like Mr. Wace's Chamber Tombs of Mycenae, but somewhat more modest, so that we could get our greater number of tombs perhaps into the same compass. Just what will be worth our doing will depend a little, I understand, on what the Swedish publication is like; I suppose that will be over here in a month or so, from the way Lucy spoke. I have written to Gjerstad to inquire.

It is not certain as yet that the museum (nor could I of course get as far as Cyprus without endowment) will find publication funds for us next winter, but it is possible I will not be so free again if I let the year go. So I am asking your permission to proceed, … continues

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