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… eight thousand dollars will be required to see the year through from September to July. I'd be well content if the University Museum would continue on the present basis contributing 25% of expenses. I hope you approve of the arrangement made with the Youngs. As Colonel Last and I are here on a volunteer basis, the cost of trained personnel will be limited to the not very large joint stipend which Mr. [handwritten: Hill] has offered the Youngs.

As you know in the past I've made occasional small contributions to the Museum for purposes unconnected with Curium Excavations. I'd be interested in seeing your financial report for the year with any comments you might want to make as to the needs of the Museum in any field in which a contribution might be particularly welcome.

I saw Frank Allen at Cairo and I hear he is a possible candidate for the curatorship of the Egyptian section. I saw something of him during the war and know him to be a particularly nice fellow. With his training under Dr. Reisner he should be a competent Egyptologist and I for one would be glad to see him with us at the Museum.

I hope to visit Athens sometime during the late [handwritten: spring] or Summer and see Mr. Hill who will probably have something more to say regarding his proposed acropolis dig than he feels he can write in a letter. I'll keep you posted on … continues