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 70 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 70 of 142

[margin left: Episkopi, Aug. 11, early A.M. Corinth 17 Aug]

Dear Mr. Hill,

Just a note to say that the other check, for £10, arrived on the thedivial mail. I went to town yesterday, cashing this check and depositing the other against the £5 they allowed me to draw some weeks ago.

I have just returned from some ungodly measurements. A new and worse hot spell has arrived, so that I am trying working at night. It seems to go fairly well, but I may revert to a daylight schedule.

Christo went on another exploring trip north of our site, and confirms the present theory that the earlier town lay just north of where we were digging. He reports good walls, with "Attic" and geometric sherds, and

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

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