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NO.............. DEPARTMENT OF ANTIQUITIES, CYPRUS.
25 Feb. 1935Dear Mr Hill,
The Director of Land Registration is worried about the description of the land in which you want to excavate, for insertion in the new or supplementary permit. You will remember that you said 'between the old Lemesos-Paphos road and the sea', which seems to mean a strip stretching indefinitely westwards to Paphos. Is it possible to give a western boundary to the area?
I am afraid I am not very clear about your plans. I understood at our first meeting that you would probably give up your present excavation at Curium in order to look for the earlier town. My later impression was that you proposed to carry on with the new site while negotiations over the old one were going ahead; and that having won round the difficult work, you [handwritten: wished to] would wish to go back and finish Curium.
I quite understand that it is probably difficult to decide at this point whether you will want to go on with the present site or not; but I wonder if it would be possible for you to give me an idea of when you will be able to say whether you propose to leave it or continue? In the event of other people wishing to … continues
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