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Handwritten: Hire to be definitely in Greece in Greece 1 Wed. to Athens to Corinth Thursday to Athens Thursday March 16 1939
G. H. McF.
Handwritten: Dear Mr. Hill,
I have your letter of March 9th for which many thanks; I am sending this off in answer on the ship leaving for Greece tomorrow in the hope that it may reach you before leaving for Greece.
It was a great disappointment to us to hear you were not going to arrive here until well over another month, and especially to me as I had been looking forward to your coming very soon to help me at Apollo. I can't say that your being here is "imperative" but it would be a great help to me to have your experience in the study of some of my buildings at Apollo.
I think possibly it might be well to get one or two buildings at Apollo into shape for a preliminary report in the A.J.A. or some such Journal as soon as we at all conveniently can. I am a little worried about so much having been uncovered at Apollo and so little thoroughly studied. To skim the surface as we did to see what was there was probably the best time approach and safest; but so much now lies clear to view that some may be impatient should there be any thing that looked like undue delay in publication.
You have asked me not to dig further into Temple A until you come down; I am planning to dig more around the Propylelon and perhaps too in the South building, but I hate digging anything on a … continues
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