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 101 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.

Unnumbered pageScan 101 of 125

Stamp: DEPARTMENT OF ANTIQUITIES CYPRUS

29th May 1935

Handwritten: Dr Hall?

Reply 20 June =

Offer made to owners an advance of 20% on official valuation

L 32-17-3 for lot #45 (Registered value 27.7.7) 50-3-3 " " 46 ( " " 41.17.7) about 36-0-0 " the part of lot #4 included within (codgnums) the limits of the present Mn. Sitis of Curium 119.2.6

Say £120 - "We shall be prepared to contribute this sum to the cost of expropriation of the Three lots."

Suggest that delay in initiating appropriate proceedings bitten not be great.

Ask Mr. Hilton to suggest to Commandant of Police of Limassol that night patrol for Sh... expand its round to Curium

Handwritten: signature

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

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