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12 Sussex Place Regent's Park N.W.1
Mar. 5. 1938
Dear Mr. Daniel,
Mr Homer Thompson has given you unnecessary alarm, and I must have unintentionally misled him. It will be a year or two before the first draft of my book will be finished! It is true I am now at somewhere about A. D. 1100, but unless I decide to leave the Middle Ages and modern times for a second volume, I have a long road to travel yet.
I am most grateful for your letter, and for the promise of future off-prints. I ought to explain that on anything that concerns Bronze Age or pre-classical archaeology I am the veriest amateur; and I find myself pretty bewildered by the controversies in which the unfortunate Cyprus - always the battle field of the nations - is involved. I try to think for myself, but it is easy to slide into the habit of believing what the last man says.
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