July–December 1935

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… know of my plans before I leave here, and my mail will be forwarded in any case. If you recieve this in time to let me hear what you think of it before I leave Karpenisi, I would be delighted. From today on I am taking a vacation, a well earned one, I hope. An amusing touch is that I finished writing this paper on the same date, but a year later, on which I cleared out the last tomb, the 13th of August. Have you heard anything more from George, and is there any more information as to when we will start digging again? I may decide, for financial reasons, to stay in Metzovo until just before time to return to Cyprus. My meager funds wouldn't last very long in Athens, I fear. I hope that you still plan to let me dig some more tombs at the beginning of the coming season, so that I can have some more material to prepare in the winter and study next summer. If it is feasible to do so before too awfully long, I should be very much interested in digging some of the tombs out from under the old road in the L.C.II cemetery, where the British dug. I have an idea that something can be made of the relations of the Bucchero and the Base Ring ware, but I can't do anything with that until I have some of the latter ware. Incidentally, I will have to check the site numbers of the British excavations at Kourion. I came away without them, so I wrote them as I thought they were. If they are wrong, as they may well be, it will be a simple matter to change them. I hope you don't find my comments on Dikaios' view too violent. I tried especially to keep them calm, calmer than they would have been if I hadn't known the man, but I did feel the necessity of mentioning them. If I dwelt in length on the Herodotus question it was so as to strengthen our claim on the prehistoric sites of Kourion; it seemed a good way of making Hilton see the intimate connection they have with our Kourion problem. Sincerely

Handwritten: Pete

Handwritten: 1935