1953: McFadden's death (1 of 2)

Dear Mr Rainey,

Thanks for the deposit in my NY account. Your letter of June 23 was received a fortnight ago. I find that the fourth paragraph of my letter of June 10 calls for radical revision. The Ottoman Bank has notified us that the credit of £1057-2-0 on May 19 in Curium Excavations account was a clerical error. The present balance is therefore only £6-8-5, and I shall not be able to strengthen Joe Last's by more than that amount. He will need, however, to be on the safe side, some W250 to £300 before Roger takes over in September.

This amount - or say $1000 - can be sent directly to him, if you prefer, to the credit of Curium Excavations. In the latter case I will transfer to his account No.2 the sums he calls for - as was the plan until the bank informed us of its error. You will of course notify me if you send funds to the credit of Curium Excavations. Roger is expected to be in Athens again on his way to Cyprus, and I will then pass over to him the Curium cheque-book, which he preferred to have me keep until then.

I go to Athens tomorrow to be ready to work with Christopher Ehrich? Christo-phis on the accounts and inventories he brings from Episkopi. His visit to Greece was planned by George, as you know, though he would have come only as draftsman, not as accountant as well. The inventory we can submit will be necessarily imperfect, but I hope it will serve its purpose. The account between the Expedition and George personally will, I think, be reasonably accurate when I have seen the data Christophis is bringing. George's debt on April 19. It was thus possible to meet of the Expedition was a good deal in George personal obligations promptly by partial payment of the Expedition's debt. There is still a balance out of which, I regret to say, Mr Last has to pay for the keep of the two horses and four dogs which we had hoped would have been sold before now.

Much of the last paragraph belongs in my next letter (on accounts and inventories), which you may expect soon.

Sincerely yours,

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