1952–April 1953

Margin left: Athens 3 Jan. 1952

Dear George

Thanks for your [illegible] good letter. You have doubtless reflected how right you were to hesitate to let me carry off the mss. of the article and the Guide. I return the former with these pages of notes of what came into my head as I read, along with a page from the text & Morgan's translations of the passages in Vitruvius that mention exedrae (as they spell them in Latin); I have known these passages for years, but curiously have always taken ^{[Greek: exhedra]} for rounded the greek is as having the same meaning as the English; & only exhedra and [Greek: oka-moscheuton] as applicable to large halls. But just look up the word in L. & S. From the mention in Plutarch it is clear that the [Greek: exhedra] in which the Senate met on the Ides of March 44 B.C. was a large apsidal hall with seats (we know it could be closed because the Senators crowded in panic to the doors when they realized what had been done by Caesar, Brutus & Co.) You will have gathered from my notes that I think you will probably best not send in the article until more is known about the S.W. Bldg from ^{[insert: from]} excavation eastward, some examination of the court to see whether there are remains of foundations for a colonnade in the original court that had in its west side the three rooms 1-2-3 Such a foundation [illegible] … continues