January–April 1954

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… away from philadelphia forth next months). Did you write my friend at the Univ. of Calif. carruther & co. are all plans? I gather that Blegen thinks will have to or would provide for us Sept. 1: arrangements will have to be made for further provision up to Sept. 1 1955 - there is no hurry about this (plenty of time before end of September) and it can or [illegible] be taken in Otoman Bank if you see fit. As for your return to U.S.: You might & you as you please, via the Riviera. Found that I & 800 owing from Curium to Gordion. Decided to leave it in Curium account; so if write Townsend on the Gordion account it would only have been a loan from there, so better leave it. & you may well have a balance of over $400 in the Gordion account (enough to cover any expenses here (for e.g. photography work), so consider that C. has a gift of ca. $800 from G. Perhaps you even already knew well of the balance in your account. Townsend giving the things requested in your list, to the tune of about $3500. And Mr. Hill seems to think the Assistant's fund-from stock worth about $10,000. If so, you should be more easy as to finances. I saw Dick Stillwell in Princeton the day after I got back. he has not yet heard from you - and was for a meeting in N.Y. the 15th July, which I welcomed and is cleared as undertake the trip. He said, in fact, that he would undertake it even at no extra compensation! - if the wealth of his mother now very ancient and failing, and 2) whether or not the Townsend proposal would compromise by that time! I am very happy that he will do it. One idea is another thing: this a mountain of basic pottery to be gone through; and a hurried trip would not suffice. Dick and Mr. Hill both advise its reduction in the excavations. I asked mr. Hill on his return to Athens (30 January) to keep an eye out for a suitable student in Cy. or abroad, who could go to Cyprus in the spring and under your supervision to handle all pottery by 90% or so so as [to] leave the extreme more concentrated for Dick (or for anybody else, for that matter) whom he goes. Mr. Hill thinks this is! I asked you to write direct to Geo. Cook[ey?] and lay the proposition before him, so to speak; I suggested to him also to [illegible] that an offer be made up to a month for this is received with no obligation for either party