1939

G H McF.

Episkopi, Limassol, Cyprus.

March 13, 1939Dear Hoddy,

You have probably been expecting to hear from me about Kourion and I'm afraid I've been pretty bad about keeping you well posted. But there is not much new to report as there have been no excavations here since last Spring. Pete Daniel, as you probably know from him, dug up until June of last year, but I stopped excavating early in order to repair the stairway of the larger temple at my site at the Sanctuary of Apollo. This required a good deal of study and time, and there was bearly time for anything else. I arrived here this Last Fall somewhat late due to the war crisis which I rather risked anyway as you know.

During the Fall I was occupied in building our new house here and store rooms and this took up most of my time; and Daniel was away at Pennsylvania, we had no excavations at all last season. We had, however, two new men down here; an Architect, Louis Lands, who was Blegen's Architect at Troy, and a member of the American school at Athens, John Young. Lands drew a fine map of Kourion; and Young has been studying the vast number of ex voto terra-cottas found on my site. We hope that he will be publishing them in a year or so; they may, however, require a long period of study, but

The Museum here has asked me for three reprints of all articles that have appeared in the Bulleton on Kourion. As we have only one or two copies ourselves, I … continues