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 8 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 8 of 40

THE ORIENTAL INSTITUTE THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, U.S.A. 1155 EAST FIFTY-EIGHTH STREET Cables: ORINST Chicago

Printed: 1891 · THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY · 1941

Handwritten: May 17, '41.

Handwritten: Dear Daniel: I took you at your word and all night and didn't answer. Just a-2437. Chicago...

[handwritten: ... did not come .... [illegible] in a square N-13, level II-a (old nomenclature) which means the upper most of three floors which produced the blood sorting from there yet, and cannot say whether the highest floor in that square ... is the place N-13, I-e, but it's certainly not the place N-13.]

[handwritten: square necessarily means — but it's very likely ... of the place or not — but its certainly not from the beginning of the photo from here and get...]

[handwritten: from something of an idea from the photos from here and get; by sorting ... the N-13, I-e; a-2296 (also, very likely) that E-436 and E-393, in other squares are about equivalent to N-13, I-e or N-13, II-e in land).]

Handwritten: N-13, II-z; a-2391, a-2529, a-2234, a-2335, a-2369, a-2437, a-2542

Handwritten: a-2313, a-2637, N-13, II-6; a-2634, a-2639, a-2542

Handwritten: a-2564, a-2570, a-2797, a-2803, a-2719, a-2905, a-2721.

[handwritten: Arrange your photos in such a way and for can ... what came above, what came with, and what came below a-2437]

[handwritten: in square N-13. I may be able to find out when (if ever) I get around to the ... idea, but this should give you some idea of the ... stuff.]

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

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