1938

I would appreciate it very much if Lands would make really careful drawings of the inscriptions. Hannah Cox's drawings are not overly accurate and there seems to be none at all of the Phoebus inscription. If they could be done early and sent straight to the museum I would be able to use them, and it would speed up the article considerably. I hope to have the text pretty much in order by the time I leave Berkeley, and will send it to you for your approval or vice versa as soon as possible.

I haven't heard anything from McEwan about a man to repair the mosaics, and in the mean time I have found somebody here who can do the job and is quite interested. It is Edgar Dorsey Taylor, an old friend of mine, an artist who was an instructor at the Univ. of California for a while but gave it up to have more time for his own work. He was always very much interested in things Byzantine and did a great deal of work in the technique of icon and fresco painting, mosaic, and the like. He has a good deal of mechanical knowledge and has done a great deal of experiment in these lines. He is rapidly making quite a reputation for himself with the result that he has been given several important jobs for the coming San Francisco exposition including a stained glass window and several mosaics. He has never lifted ancient mosaics, but he has set a good many modern ones, and feels that he would be perfectly qualified for our work. He would be free to come in January and stay until the job is done. The question is largely one of finance, how much we would be able to give him. I told him that we were hoping to find some one near at hand and that we would almost certainly not be able to offer enough for his entire trip. He has a certain