January–June 1936

-2- Miss Goldman thinks that it may be possible to divide the spring between Tarsus and Kourion, but this, of course, can not be ^decided done until Kourion plans are clear enough to make final plans dependent upon them. I will greatly appreciate it if a concrete decision can be reached in the near future concerning Kourion. What about my article about the Kourion pottery? I have undertaken several jobs and must do something definite about that article. Either it must be finished and sent off very soon or else I will be forced to abandon it. If I come to Greece after Tarsus will you be able to devote enough time to it so that it can be finished up and sent off immediately? If you can I will go to Cyprus from Tarsus and finish the conclusions and then go to Greece. You have the main body of the article, now, so there is no reason why there should be any delay over that. After all it is as it was before save for the changes we decided upon. The conclusions will not run over five or six pages, so that a day or two of concentrated work will be sufficient. I do not feel that I can spare more. This must be sent off before vol. 4 of

-3- the Swedish report appears. That is bound to impose a major change upon the manner of treating the material and render the whole paper more polemical. I do not have time to make the changes. It is now nearly a year since I sent the manuscript to you from Karpinisi, and I cannot help feeling that it should have gone to America long ago. I am willing, and even anxious, to go to Greece now to finish it off, but I must feel sure that it will be finished without delay. I will be going to Greece only for that and I will leave when it is finished. If it cannot be done I will not come to Greece now. I hope that it will be possible for you to get an answer to me by the 1st of July. There is a boat for Cyprus on the 2nd. I was shocked to hear of the death of Payne, whom I esteemed very highly, both as a man and as an archaeologist. That is a very serious loss. Has it been decided who will take his place? I wonder what will come of the work I wanted to do in Crete. I had only a verbal agreement with Payne. I hope that his successor will respect it and be as helpful as Payne was.