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 36 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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… to suspect that they were never delivered. I wrote again Wednesday, but have no answer.

By the time you arrive Dikaios will be in such a pleasant mood that he will attract bees. Christo showed me his letter, and I think that the man is afraid of trouble in which he can only lose. He thought to bully us, but now sees that we (or rather I) will fight back, and is retreating as best he can. I am being most ingratiating superficially, but I want to give him one more scare, probably to seal the peace.

I am going to write to him to say that as I assume that the list catalogue and letters never reached him, would he please ask all the employees to make sure that none of them have it. For, I shall say, I have decided to report the matter to the police,

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

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