1939

Episkopi, Cyprus

June 26, 1939Dear Mrs. Dohan:-

Here, at long last, is the Schaeffer review. I hope that you will find it satisfactory; in any case it is less savage than my last offering on the altar of criticism.

I am beginning to feel a bit sheepish about my Casson review, and hope that you dealt mercilessly with it. I still feel that the criticism of fact should remain about as it was, but there are one or two places in which I took it upon myself to inform the world of letters that Casson had bad manners. I think that the case would be stronger if I simply gave the evidence and withheld commentary. If there is still time to cut out any such passages which you have not already cut, I would greatly appreciate your doing it.

If this involves expense for corrections in proof, I would gladly meet it. Rodney Young gave me a reprint of his article, and I am working on it now in my spare time. I am still anxious to review it, and would be delighted if you were to keep the review copy for yourself, since I won't need it. I am also working on Ain Shems, which is not going to be easy to review.

The digging season is over, and Mr. Hill, George, and Virginia Grace, who was here for a few days, have left for Greece on George's boat. I accompanied them around the west end of the island, and then returned here by car. Mr. Hill was here this year for nearly two months: the longest stay he has made here in some time. He spent most of his time at the Sanctuary of Apollo, chiefly occupied by the anastylosis of the facade of the South building, which we found lying where it was thrown by the earthquake, with nearly every stone in-situ. Most of it is back in position now, and it makes a very good show. You may have heard of the two important inscriptions found this year. One of them was in-situ on the fallen wall, in a position about three meters up. It records the building of the two missing exedrae (apparently the inner … continues