July–December 1935

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… well vouched for L.H.III pieces which are even worse than ours, and, most important of all, there are two pieces from Mycenae, and one from Kythera, which are absolutely identical. It is a strange and quite unusual type of clay, so that I feel perfectly safe in regarding this as an importation. Heurtley, as you will remember, regarded it as a Granary piece. Since seeing these other things, I am absolutely certain of it. My paper has come to an end since I started writing this letter, so [handwritten: separate] I am sending you the best carbon copy of it under special cover. I would send the original, but I am afraid that it might get lost in the mail. I hope that it will meet with your approval. It could have been better if I had had more material and more time to work on it, but it does seem that the most important thing is to get the material out. It will quiet Dikaios and company, and I am very anxious for my own sake to have something not too bad in print. I have decided to apply to California for a scholarship for next year for one semester. My chances of getting it without a publication are nil; with one they should be fair. And this paper will have a certain importance in spite of its preliminary nature. There is, I think, ample evidence against the colonization theory, and that certainly is important. The material is good, and adds a great many new types to the L.C.III pottery, to say nothing of the new Black Incised Ware. So I hope that we can get it off to press as soon as the photographs are available, and that Pennsylvanai will not put it on the shelf, but will either publish it immediately or let me turn it over to some one who will. It might even be possible to send it off now with a set of my present photographs, so that Pennsylvania could be making up its mind about it, and then send the other photographs on as soon as they are ready, which is almost certain to be before the press is ready for it. Would that meet with your approval? My plans are a bit vague, but I expect to be here for [handwritten: at least] a week more; after that I may leave for Metzovo, hiking through the mountains, to spend a week or two there before returning to Athens. I will let you … continues