Correspondence·PU-Mu 1050, Box 1, folder 11·1940

1940

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

Scan 5 of correspondence PU-Mu 1050, Box 1, folder 11 (1940), typed and handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 1, folder 11, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 5 of 54

Jan 17Episkopi, 9 Jan. 1940

Stamp: G. H. McF.

Dear Mr. Hill, I have been here for over a week now, and although quite alone, have not found this solitary retreat at all unpleasant. I left Athens as you know on Thursday the 27th

but we did not arrive at Limassol until Sunday morning due to bad weather. The ship took shelter from the Sarocco (spelling) under the west coast of Rhodes. The weather was nearly so bad as to warrant this, but I think they were concerned about the cargo aboard as they

65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain

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