Correspondence·PU-Mu 1050, Box 1, folder 6·January–June 1936

January–June 1936

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Typed and handwritten in English. Every line is transcribed, and the text sits beside the scan.

Scan 42 of correspondence PU-Mu 1050, Box 1, folder 6 (January–June 1936), typed and handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 1, folder 6, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 42 of 85

[printed: · 2 · SAVOY HOTEL FAMAGUSTA - CYPRUS TELEGRAMS:- "SAVOY" P. O. B. 21]

clue to the Mycenaean City in the British Museum report. One of their site D numbers is given to "a tomb like a cistern, about 40 ft. deep. Great quantities of Mycenaean sherds, but no burial remains", or something like that. I made a tracing of the plan, and hoped to check to see if it really is a cistern. It is on the river side of the plateau, close to the old road.

I have seen Mr. & Mrs. Hilton, first in the street and then in the hotel. He seems quite enthusiastic about recent developments at Kourion.

Finances are a bit complicated.

65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain

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