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Correspondence·PU-Mu 1050, Box 2, folder 3·1950

1950

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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 2, folder 3 (1950), typed and handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 2, folder 3, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 2 of 46

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… is ending after this coming season; and so I hope that you will have success in your new venture at Gordion. I am proposing to have soundings at Kouklia in June and July of this year, with J. H. Iliffe, the Palestine man, and then A. R. Burn. If things go as we hope, a long term campaign should result. But we are being cautious and quiet at this stage -

With my best wishes

Sincerely yours

T. B. Mitford

Should be sent to M. A. H. S. MEGAW Director of Antiquities Cyprus Museum NIKOSIA - CYPRUS

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