Correspondence·PU-Mu 1050, Box 1, folder 15·July–December 1947

July–December 1947

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

Scan 78 of correspondence PU-Mu 1050, Box 1, folder 15 (July–December 1947), typed and handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 1, folder 15, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 78 of 97

Printed: DEPARTMENT OF ANTIQUITIES, CYPRUS.

Stamp: coat of arms

No. [handwritten: ...................]

Handwritten: 8th December 1947

Handwritten: Dear George,

Handwritten: I am in process of reading your A.J.A. article on Ayios Eirenaios (?) which was very kind of you. Being a personal copy + the contents of your letter, it is most interesting. I think the tomb is an additional + your publication of it seems to me a most useful contribution to a complex subject.

Handwritten: I made all concerned with its publication (for three days) fully congratulated on its appearance. It can be read in our memorial since you were at Cyprus before in the finishing touches in the America.

Handwritten: I wonder how far you have been in your present digging for the Kourion (?) time has been stopped all my news with you.

Handwritten: Hoping ...

Handwritten: Peter

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

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