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15 November 1947The Director, The University Museum, 33rd & Spruce Streets, Philadelphia.
Dear Prof. Many thanks for your letter of October 21st with the good news of your research program. You are certainly to be congradulated in getting the museum into harness again so quickly. Your interest in Curium has been greatly appreciated by all of us. For easy reference I'll try and take up the points in your letter in the order mentioned.
Both Mr. Hill and I are in complete agreement about the need of having ample time set aside for working toward publications. This is what we have been doing here since I returned to Curium after the war early in 1946. There were no excavations last year except for a little work on the stadium to enable the Young's publishing this interesting building before their scholarship ends.
Your ratio of three years of excavation to two for indoor work is generous on the side of excavation. I think that on the whole five or six months in the field would be enough for any one year. Other months would be spent on catching up with other work. Some time, of course, will have to be spent in the library either at home or at Athens. Summer would be a good time for this. Excavations are not possible in mid winter on account of the rains, and this season would find us working in our store rooms, cataloguing, mending, photographing, writing up reports, and laying the
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