July–December 1936

c/o American Express, Athens

July 22, 1936Dear Mr. Hill, I reached Athens last night, and called at your house this morning, only to be told that you had left for Nemea this morning. You can imagine how dissapointed I was. I had fully expected to find you in Athens, and was all keyed up to sailing through the last pages of the article. I hope that it will not be very inconvenient. I left the typewriter at your house, [handwritten: ?was] I am wiring you to announce my arrival, and to ask what to do.

As I wrote to you my only purpose in coming to Athens now/to see this article through; I have suggested in my letter that I come to Nemea: I hope that will meet with your approval. I am thinking now, depending on recieving a favorable answer to my wire, of coming to Nemea on the Friday morning train. If you have not finished the article by then would it be possible to leave a message for me at the station, in which case I will continue to Nauplia by the same train, and return to Nemea on the Saturday noon train. I must fit in an hour or two at Nauplia before leaving Greece, and that would be a convenient time. Of course if you wire says not to come, I will not, and there will be no reason for leaving a note for me.

I am not yet certain when I will be leaving Greece. I will go by boat direct to Copenhagen, sailing from Piraeus either on the 26th or the 30th of July.

I am enclosing the pages of the article which you do not already have. It is much as it was, with corrections, save for the conclusions, which are entirely rewritten, and in my opinion considerably improved. I wrote you from Cyprus, saying that I had spotted another imported Granary style pot in 26A. In the article I have simply transfered it from its original place in class II to class I, and cited the parallels from Mycenae. It has not necessitated any radical changes of text.

I got your typewriter through without any trouble, thanks to the … continues