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 73 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 73 of 125

To the Director of Antiquities, Nicosia.

Sir,

I have the honour to request approval of the Staff selected to conduct excavations under my direction on and about the site of ancient Curium in accordance with the terms of the Permits issued to me by command of His Excellency the Governor, as follows:

George H. McFadden, B.A., Princeton University, 1930; student at the University of Pennsylvania, 1932-33, 1933-34 and 1934-35, one semester each.

John Franklin Daniel, Jr., A.B.; University of California, 1932; student at the University of Freiburg, 1928-29, and Munich, 1932-33, one semester each; member of the American School of Classical Studies, 1933-34.

Bert Hodge Hill, A.B., University of Vermont, 1895; A.M., Columbia University, 1900; L.H.D., University of Vermont, 1920; Assistant Curator of Classical Antiquities, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1903-1906; Director of the American School of Classical Studies, Athens, 1906-1926.

Respectfully,

Handwritten: signature

B.H.Hill, Director of the University of Pennsylvania Archaeological Expedition

9 Plutarch Street, Athens, 21 February 1935 [handwritten: 21/2/35]

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