Correspondence·PU-Mu 1050, Box 2, folder 6·1953

1953: McFadden's death (1 of 2)

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

Scan 7 of correspondence PU-Mu 1050, Box 2, folder 6 (1953: McFadden's death (1 of 2)), typed and handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 2, folder 6, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 7 of 128

Printed: ANTIQUITIES DEPARTMENT, NICOSIA, CYPRUS

Handwritten: 23/4/53

Handwritten: Dear Ramsay,

Handwritten: I was in Athens when I heard the awful news about George McFadden and so I was able to confer with B.H.H. before returning from Athens.

[handwritten: I hope he will be able to undertake some of the work on the coming days. I was not able to see him, but I was told he was in Rome and he was taken from Hermon Head and] [handwritten: I saw him.]

[handwritten: I wrote a note to Mail, which is sent to my wife, or the letter, so I kept you for the last] [handwritten: hope you will look into this accompanying Ramsay ... the enclosed copy of my report ...]

Handwritten: Yours sincerely,

Handwritten: Ob Morgan

Handwritten: to B.H.H.

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

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