1946

Curium Excavations, Episkopi, Limassol D., Cyprus.

4 July, 1946Ag. Director, University Museum.

Dear Mrs Godfrey,

I was delighted to have your letter of June 21st which arrived yesterday and for which many thanks. The material, at present not available at home, we'll endeavor [handwritten: to] obtain in Egypt. Meanwhile what you have been able to obtain at home will be most useful. In regard to the paper, sheets will do, of course, just as well as the rolls. Many thanks, too, for arranging the exchange of publications with the Alexandria Museum. In cidently the President of the Archaeological Society of Alexandria is a Philadelphian, Judge Jasper Y. Brinton, the first American ever to have been President of the Mixed Courts of Appeal there.

The Youngs are due to arrive tomorrow by air from Athens, and will be bringing first hand news of the possibility of excavating in Greece in the near future. I'll advise you, of course should there be any change for the better in the situation there.

Since my last Letter, I have heard from Mr. Hill and I thought I should let you know that he is much in favor of the neolithic "dig" proposed. I sounded out the Director of Antiquities here who has returned from Palestine and he offered to lend us Mr. Dikaios, the Curator of the British Museum here, to direct the excavations. The Government would continue to pay his salary while he was working for us and we should have at least half of the finds and rights of publication. This was a generous gesture and would reduce costs which, nevertheless, would still be high, at … continues