Correspondence·PU-Mu 1050, Box 1, folder 14·January–June 1947

January–June 1947

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Typed and handwritten in English. Every line is transcribed, and the text sits beside the scan.

Scan 2 of correspondence PU-Mu 1050, Box 1, folder 14 (January–June 1947), typed and handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 1, folder 14, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 2 of 73

CURIUM EXCAVATIONS EPISKOPI, LIMASSOL CYPRUS

There had been no rain in the island up until the time of my arrival, but the weather has made up for it during the last few weeks, and the plain is green again in young wheat and barley, and in the hilly country round the village flowers are beginning to come forth in riotous profusion. You should be here to enjoy the changing scene. With best wishes to you and [handwritten: Mrs.] Hill for the New Year, and to Mrs. Blegen,

Handwritten: George

Handwritten: Gerald?

Handwritten: Please excuse spacing which seems to have gone anywhere.

[handwritten: Feb 6 7 Early reply]

65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain

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