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… Dr. E. A. Speiser, Near East Committee of American Council of Learned Societies, Philadelphia, Pa.

For some years the scientific work at the Swedish Cyprus Museum has been carried on according to a plan the aim of which is to prepare a "Corpus" of all Cypriote antiquities. As completion of this work, however, has proved to be beyond the resources of our institution I take the liberty of writing to you in order to let you know the scheme of the work with the hope that some collaboration might be established between us and our colleagues in America. I think collaborations between American and Swedish institutions would further the cause a great deal, as scientific excavations in a modern sense on any large scale have been carried out in Cyprus only by these two countries. The largest, and scientifically most important collections of Cypriote antiquities outside Cyprus are likewise to be found in America and Sweden. To the collection in Stockholm is attached a considerable amount of plans, drawings and photographs, all made or collected by the members of the Swedish Cyprus Expedition in the past 15 years. The American institutions which particularly have shown keen scientific interest in Cypriote archaeology are the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the University of Pennsylvania Museum with its repeated expeditions to Cyprus. The close personal friendship which has developed between the members of these expeditions and the members of the Swedish Cyprus Expedition