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… some recent excavations of theirs near a summer camp of the army, down by the shore. I think it would be well worth your time to visit these if you can arrange it. They are some quite remarkably rock-cut Hellenistic tombs with a great deal of painting and architectural detail preserved. They have been restored of course à l'Italien (Mr. Barocab, whose Abyssinian sympathies are strong, is a little rueful about this) but it is clear enough how much is original.
Sept. 8, evening (Sunday)
We opened the two cases which had not your numbers, and found sufficient destruction. There seems to be no difficulty about keeping the (Kourion) apotheke open and it simplifies matters to leave it so. I locked your trunk again after removing pertinent papers. These I have been looking over.
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Episkopi
Sept. 7, 1935Dear Mr. Hill,
I am sitting on your front porch looking at the sea waiting for breakfast to wake up.
Work in the apotheke begins only today because my letter to Mr. Hilton did not catch the boat I hoped it would. I went up to Nicosia yesterday to inquire about the boys only to discover that they had left on the morning mail. Mr. Hilton and Mr. Dikaios were both there. Everyone inquired for you.
I learned (from Dikaios, who has a friend coming on it) that there will be a boat, the Diana, arriving here the 7th which comes all the way from Peiraeus, calling at Alexandria but not necessitating a change. In fact I seem to have … continues
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