Correspondence·PU-Mu 1050, Box 1, folder 12·1941–1945

1941–1945

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

Scan 37 of correspondence PU-Mu 1050, Box 1, folder 12 (1941–1945), typed and handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 1, folder 12, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 37 of 40

CABLEGRAM SENT TO

BERT HODGE HILL, PLUTARCH STREET, ATHENS, GREECE.

WHAT FUNDS REQUIRED TO MAKE EXCAVATIONS ON ACROPOLIS WORTH WHILE AND WHEN AS MUSEUM MOST INTERESTED STOP COULD YOU INVITE YOUNGS RESUME WORK TERRACOTTAS CYPRUS IF AVAILABLE ON ANY TERMS YOU CONSIDER REASONABLE STOP CAN JOIN YOU OR THEM THIS WINTER ANSWER VILLATNOVA

Signed GEORGE McFADDEN

Stamp: illegible

Printed: GEORGE R. McFADDEN, 1811 CHESTNUT STREET, PHILADELPHIA

Stamp: Philadelphia, Dec 1941

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

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