Correspondence·PU-Mu 1050, Box 1, folder 16·1948

1948

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

Scan 90 of correspondence PU-Mu 1050, Box 1, folder 16 (1948), typed and handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 1, folder 16, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 90 of 107

classical archaeologists drool with delight. I have been more or less holding myself in check during the last few days, but it is completely useless, because this letter, and will even do it so in the remainder. early stages of an operation are a fairly accurately have the fact that I am certainly anti-quities, however, a sadly unsatisfactory report to make on the care of expressing our personal and my careful pains to dig it with another (on Bambouli, practically destroyed) all my sherds in 1939 (it is not an exaggeration to say that this evidence has been through (the period as the evidence) partly dug almost entirely destroyed by the sub-mycenaean and partly period of that has ever been dug from the Kourion complex is most important and a good for sherds anywhere(?) two statement of the storage bags of 28 bags of documented so when the time came to say that what is ever certainly we can, and then we had we are not one cent more do be paid for a typical site for the care of the convinced that a clear one once the once of found and of all our finds, and space, a proper store all the time as we are convinced more of the playgrounds of the Kourion. This is really thought the sun is the drawn between the store to be distinguish app presently that are supplied for archaeological items were 1947 when the 'workroom' storage, my work was partly 2 the of my workroom so shocking. As a result of the things of this I left to hold of his horses. The condition is that it have not been ablation to be or negotiate to an order for finish them his work and will not further more. unable to complete our will with Messrs. Request that I furnish them with a complete stratified of potsherds. The shards is ever 'in gone about the' .. So our objective of acquiring ... inspected for the destruction reasonably... very suitable, as that we would be: complete unsuitable for the from the nature of it humidity the archaeologists. Then the store, excess of which ... except that they will prefer to be recorded with a guard on a day of the George was... it. Once the chain in so the bad for the reckoning...

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