1946

Sir George Hill's recent History of Cyprus published at the Cambridge University Press, England. Would the Museum be interested, with Mr. Hill's approval, I'll take up the matter with the English Director of Antiquities when he returns from Palestine where he is in charge of repair work on the Dome of the Rock at Jerusalem. Meanwhile I shall ask Mr. Dikaios for some of his reports which will be forwarded on to you in due course.

I am enclosing herewith a copy of a letter to the Museum Treasurer. The four thousand dollars allocated to Curium Excavations for this season + fear will not go quite so far as I had anticipated, as costs have gone up considerably during the war. When we first came to the island, a worker's wage was just a little over a shilling. At about the time of Pearl harbor it was about three shillings. By V J day it had gone up to six shillings where it still is today. If necessary to see us through the season, I wonder whether the University Museum would be prepaired may be required in excess of the estimated four thousand dollars, and the Museum's commitment, one thousand, or 25% of the total alloted. This should be exhausted well before the beginning of the next academic year.

In regard to the future, if four of us are here for the greater part of the coming year, Col. Last, the Youngs, and I, I anticipate something between seven and … continues