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… on the same plane with them, a circumstance which might facilitate their procuring a passage. I agree to the £6-6-3 remaining in connection with the donation made by Curium Excavations in connection with the purchase of part of our site being transferred to the Department of Antiquities accordingly upon his return from Palestine. shall I take it from your letter that our acropolis project is not feasible at present but hope there may be a chance of an arrangement sometime in the future. I'm told that the Cyprus Museum is very low in funds and that, consequently, Dikaios will be able to dig the for three weeks this season. It occured to me that the University Museum might be interested in a Neolithic Site. y thought was to invite Dikaios to excavate for the University Museum which would pay his salary with half the finds going to Philadelphia; it would be on a small scale for a limited period. here, s still a good deal to be done at Erimi, he says, and with your approval, I might make the suggestion to the University Museum about it. if they show interest I'll speak to Megaw about it. I arrived at Alexandria on one of our new fast cargo vessels on March 1st after a ten days voyage from New York. I saw "Samothrace" there which is now all blue including her sails. Even the dinghy sail is blue. I saw the king later at a party in Cairo and told him that I feared if ever I had another ship I'd run into him, mistaking his Egyptian majesty for a patch of blue sky. He laughed and said that was just what he wanted. He offered to send me over to Cyprus on her, but as she wasn't ready on the day scheduled for her to leave, mindful of past experience when "Samothrace" was mine, I flew on Misr Airlines to Nicosia where I arrived on the same day a little over two weeks ago. About a week after my arrival, a blue schooner put into Limassol and dropped anchor off "The Gift of the Sea", king Farid el Kabir" , ex "Samothrace", and her skipper, the king, sent me an invitation through the Police Station here to come on board for lunch. I had a delicious meal in the after cabin which now forms part of HM's suite. It has been somewhat enlarged by the removal of the closed in bunks and is panelled in elaborate Egyptian carving adorned with innumerable crowns. Adjoining, under the companionway, and in the space where the old galley was, is the after cabin is under the room. Access to these from the royal state and bath comapanionway. The door leading to the old galley is now walled in. The new galley is just after the foc's'l on the port side. here are now two pantries; one opposite the new galley, and the old one which caters to EM's suite. Otherwise the officers' Ward Room. The old saloon is become the officers' Ward Room. Fortunately, the king in didn't like my linen fold panelling which is now fire back storage at Alexandria, save for the new saloon, or Ward Room, which are here at Episkopi. surmounted in royal arms. is a monstosity [handwritten: ...]