Correspondence·PU-Mu 1050, Box 2, folder 7·1953

1953: McFadden's death (2 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 7 (1953: McFadden's death (2 of 2)), typed and handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 2, folder 7, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 7 of 150

Purchases by Mr. McFadden not of record in Cyprus as donations to Curium Excavations.

1 Humber Hawk car: 5-passenger saloon, 1951. 1 Land Rover Station Wagon 6-passenger 1952 1 bicycle Adlerwerke Frankfurt M. 100 (1938 or earlier) 1 typewriter Royal delux (ca. 1947) (ca. 1946) 1 calculating machine (British made) (1953) 1 Nectograph with supplies and compass (1949) 1 level transit with staff (1949) 1 telica copic leveling No. 56 8759 (1951) model 95 mm, 43 906 1 leica camera (1952) Polaroid camera (1951) model 95, magazine-loading 16 mm, 43906 1 cine camera 'Bell & Howell, magazine-loading 16 mm' 1 tripod 1 pair binoculars [handwritten: ...] (old) 1 thermometer 1 Tempescribe 1 barometer 1 Baar hygrometer

1 kerosene cooking stove (stored) 1 gas cooking stove (in use) 1 oven 1 clocks 1 kettle 1 coffee pot (Vesuvius) 1 glass coffee pots 1 balancing scale and weights

1 fruit bowl 1 wooden salad bowls 1 wooden spoons 1 wooden forks 1 wooden siphons 1 soda siphons 1 thermos flasks 3 vases for flowers 8 tablecloths (various sizes) 1 table napkins locally woven. 12 big table napkins and doilies (Lefkara) 27 small napkins and doilies (Lefkara) 4 tray covers (Lefkara)

a)The Humber has been laid up for the Summer the Rover is in regular use.

b)Sent from USA March 13, received May 2, 1953

c)Purchased from Sears-Roebuck (catalogue price $48.50)

d)An older Leica, no. 486903, was turned over to Cur. Exc. and repaired, in Oct. 1952 at a cost of £20.8.5

e)The kerosene stove, brought from USA in 1949(?) in good repair except for the need of some spare parts from USA replaced it in 1952. The gas stove costing £67, replaced it in 1952.

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

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