Correspondence·PU-Mu 1050, Box 1, folder 4·January–July 1935

January–July 1935

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

Scan 1 of correspondence PU-Mu 1050, Box 1, folder 4 (January–July 1935), typed and handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 1, folder 4, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

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M.J. Q. this let is partly archeologicl but mainly business I am addressing it to you but sending a c.p. to J.D. The Museum has made arrangement with Virg. Grace to prepare the an excavation & 321 of Lap. for publication

Drawing: arrow] J.D. I received your letter of June 27 and last week

learned in detail of Virginia Grace's plan for work in Cyprus. She had written to ask for a transcript of the field book as they are, sometimes Lap'd mid some in the letter provided in that c.p., hers to me now came. She had spent a couple of days in Cyprus on her way from Turkey to Greece and found that the work would probably \be too much for her to do in gather i.e. necessity for large number of vase mending. It is probable that a good many vases will have to be re-mended before they can be photographed

Drawing: line connecting across text] then according to the [illegible] Univ. Museum [illegible] are now stored

in 40 cases in one of our storerooms & [illegible] at Episkopi. Those which the Cyp. Mus. (Tombs E. 25 & 74 and a few special pieces) should be readily accessible as they have were delivered to the Museum together with cleaned & mended being and so far as I know have since been in exhibition cases or on shelves in the Museum's study collection. But the cases in rather a different [illegible] Unfortunately with the those awarded to the U.M. but not sent to Phila were a part of them were then packed for transport, but after I heard from Mr. Payne that they were not to

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

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