Correspondence·PU-Mu 1050, Box 1, folder 10·1939

1939

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Typed and handwritten in English. Every line is transcribed, and the text sits beside the scan.

Scan 34 of correspondence PU-Mu 1050, Box 1, folder 10 (1939), typed and handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 1, folder 10, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 34 of 95

Docent Alfred Westholm, CYPERNEXPEDITIONEN (THE SWEDISH CYPRUS EXPEDITION) Storgatan 41 STOCKHOLM (Sweden) Tel. 62 88 57

May 30. 1939.

Mr. John F. Daniel, American Expedition, E P I S K O P I, Cyprus.

My dear Pete,

Since I heard from you the last time I have accomplished my trip to America - the most wonderful journey I ever made, I think. I spent some time in New York, visited New Haven, Boston, Ann Arbor, Chicago, Washington, Baltimore, and many other places. In Philadelphia Mrs. Dohan received me in the most wonderful way. I made some soundings as to the American view on our plans of making a Corpus of Cypriote antiquities and was quite surprized of the interest everywhere. As you remember I suggested a cooperation between Swed. Cyp. Exp., Metrop. Mus. in New York an the Pennsylvania University, the institutions which more than any others are concerned with Cypriote Archaeology. I managed to get Dr. E. A. Speiser interested in the plan. He is the secretary of the Near East Committee of American Concil of Learned Societies which like- … continues

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