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 16 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 16 of 125

Athens 24 Jan Corinth 25-th

Jan. 17, 1935Jan. 17, 19345

Dear Mr. Hill,

I certainly hope that you are coming to Cyprus on the 22nd, as you said you would try to. The situation with Mr. Dikaios is getting quite out of hand, and I am greatly afraid that unless you come here yourself, and very soon, and smooth matters out, it will be altogether too late.

He is trying to force a play, and will sooner or later succeed. You can handle the matter; I can't at all. and I am in an extremely embarrassing position. The situation will be saved or lost within the next two or three weeks, and only you can save it. If the cloud breaks on me I will be in the unpleasant situation of having even the most favorably inclined think that I am at least in

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