January–July 1935

THE UNIVERSITY MUSEUM UNIVERSITY of PENNSYLVANIA PHILADELPHIA

May 31, 1935Dr. B. H. Hill, Episkopi, Limassol, Cyprus.

Dear Dr. Hill:

I suppose that Virginia Grace will already have written you about her plan to work in Cyprus this summer or next fall.

Dr. Jeyne has received a gift of funds adequate to pay Virginia's expenses for ten weeks or more of study in Nikosia, on the tomb groups excavated by you several years ago at Lapithos. If she completes the work needed at that end we will try to subsidize her for several months in Philadelphia in 1936 to finish the MS. This sign of action and continuing interest I hope will remove the doubts of the Cyprus authorities as to publication.

Virginia spoke to me of a notebook or notebooks which would be necessary to her study. I did not know, nor did she, whether they remained in Cyprus, or in your care at Athens, or have been sent on here. I later turned up here quite an extensive MS, typewritten, of notes entitled 'Excavation of Prehistoric Tombs in Lapithos, 1931', which lists in consecutive numerical order Mycenean tombs 1-38 and Geometric tombs 51-86, with excellent complete descriptions, as well as a photograph catalogue. If this is the very notebook she requires, will you or she let me know so that I may put it into her hands?

We are counting on you to give Virginia any moral sustenance she needs.

Mr. Jeyne has approached several potential sponsors of further excavation at Kourion/Curium next autumn. Some excellent contacts have been made, though he is not yet able to report achievement. He hopes presently to have some solution of the Metropolitan matter, about which you have heard something; he will then be in a better position to make definite assurances.

Our best wishes for your work, and let us know of any striking results which might appeal to the newspapers. Please give our best regards to Mr. McFadden.

Very sincerely yours,

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