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… the present time, and I agree[handwritten: ✓]that it might be wiser to bide our time until the situation clears up a little in Greece. I'm afraid my work on the Hellenistic cemetery has not been going forward quite as rapidly ax I had hoped. without assistance, cataloguing, mending, photographing, etc, takes alot of time, and the lack of books is a serious handicap. I hope to put in some work in the library at the American School in Athens on my way home toward the end of the Summer. I'll be returning here of course, again in the Fall.

Please express to the [handwritten: B]oard my appreciation for their continued interest in Curium Excavations. I was delighted to hear that the budget for the coming year of $8,000.00 has been approved, and I am enclosing a cheque for the amount of one Thousand Dollars as an initial installment of my share of the estimated eight thousand. You will note from my letter to the Treasurer of April 16th that of the estimated expenses of Four Thousand Dollars for the closing fiscal year, I have already contributed my share of $3,000.00. I suggest that for the present the Museum send us only One thousand Dollars, representing the Museum's share for the closing year along with the proceeds of my cheque which, as before, should be sent to the Ottoman Bank, Limassol, Cyprus, with instructions that the amounts be deposited to the credit of Curium Excavations.

In reference to my letter of May 10th. I wonder if the squeezes ever arrived.

Thank you for your news of Dr. Daniel. It is great to hear that the Classical Section is to be opened up again. I wonder what he wants to have us do with the antiquities … continues