January–June 1947

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Printed: HOT SPRINGS, VIRGINIA

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Printed: FAY INGALLS PRESIDENT

Printed: HAROLD P. BOCK GENERAL MANAGER

and doom it to an early collapse".. Dr. Daniel doesn't appreciate, of course, at what small expense this was to the museum, but his words might give the impression that all finds from Curium over a period of twelve years have been up for division. Actually these finds do not represent the work of twelve years but of a few months only (June -August, 1934; and October- December, 1935), and they (the finds which have been up for division) represent only a portion of the finds which were excavated during that time. Other finds excavated then and since then were not put up for division because neither Dr. Daniel, Dr. Young, nor I, nor our Director, Dr. Hill, nor Dr. Virginia Grace, now at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, are ready yet for such a division. This is due mainly to the war which interrupted our work in Cyprus for several years. Dr. Daniel further writes in his letter to the Director of Antiquities, "I am anxious to extend the excavations at Kourion for a number of years, at least until the chief monumental areas known to us are cleared. The Board of Managers will support me in this although they realize that the Museum's direct gain is slight in relation to expenditure..." I cannot believe that Dr. Daniel is expressing here the considered opinion of the University Museum. I feel sure if you were to come out to Cyprus and look over our store rooms and sites and then look at the records, you would have some reason to be pleased. I certainly hope so. I refer you to my letter of June for the impression they made on Professor Robinson of John Hopkins and Professor Beazley of Oxford. It was not my own intention to liquidate Curium Excavations if the tripod, which we would all like to have, is not granted. But if we do continue our work there in any event, as I hope very much we shall, our position will be a little undignified. Recently Dr. Daniel has written an ex member of Curium Excavations, Dr. Virginia Grace, that the University Museum should be consulted hereafter before any of our materials goes to press. He was referring to some Rhodian amphoras from Curium. Miss Virginia Grace is a great authority on this type of amphora, and Dr. Hill and I thought it would be to the interest of the University Museum that these amphoras should be included in her publication. They will be published again by the University Museum with the tomb groups to which they belong. I told you about this last August. I think but I made a mistake, perhaps, in not putting this matter in writing. If Dr. Daniel had first cleared through us it would not have been necessary for him to have written this letter to Miss Grace. Dr. Daniel has also written to the Curator of the Cyprus Museum again without clearing through Dr. Hill or me. I have not seen his letter. As you know I organized the Cyprus Expedition and kept it going for a good number of years with some very welcome help from the University Museum, but I find myself in a position now where I don't know what is going on. With your permission I am asking Dr. Daniel hereafter to clear through Dr. Hill or through me rather than taking up matters up directly with third parties. I say this because I know that