1940

(with handles you just use a plumb bob, and I don't have to use a scale because I take them all at the same scale. Getting a scale at the right level is a problem if you try to look down at objects of any thickness). George showed me how to use ground glass his attachment, but naturally he was wanting to use it himself much of the time until he went out. Then some of the items were rather obstinate about being found, and I had various other difficulties, for instance with the background, specially for those Ali Baba numbers. I hope the result of all this has not been that the delay is serious at your end. For myself, I have enjoyed getting the various problems coped with, and have learned quite a bit in the process. Like Sally Anderson, who made a fine book-trained comment: "But is all this coarse ware Bronze Age too?" She has been very nice about helping, and very useful with her special knowledge in arranging the British Museum sherds.

I'll send the pictures, prints and rolls of film separately I think, within the next few days whenever one of us goes in to Limassol to get them mailed properly. It would be sad to have this job murdered for the stamp money. I hope you will get them in time to send for seconds of anything you'd like done differently. A good printer will help a lot I think. I finally had these developed by Bastajian in Limassol, whom John Young used. George is still sending his to England, but it seemed a long and uncertain wait before one would know how they were going and which had to be done over. I have assumed that the censor would not permit in any case the direct export to America of unexposed film. Results on stone implements are perhaps the poorest, but I think I won't do any more with them until I hear from you whether [handwritten: nt] and the attitudes you want them to assume. Of the big different [handwritten: two] exposures because of the wear and tear on them [handwritten: o], and asked her to tell you if she that a Bamboula plan has been finished the Museum was to seal it to avoid if [handwritten: or] or, which might muss it.)