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… balls were resolved and he is all set to go on your terms ($ 1500 plus air transport and maintenance in the condition of his mother's health. He did not say anything about the prospects of Anges going to wrote Stillwell before he got my letter I do not know if he will reconsider and hang on to the mosaics. So this sounds very satisfactory. As Pales evidently wrote the photographs adequate for publication, and if not take the the publication of the photographs are not have the prospects of the grand that if he gives them up too, you had better check to see whether there are photographs adequate for publication, and if not take the If you do not have the photographs here. Reuben of course did not finish what the is in the way of photographs here. Reuben of course did not finish what the Bambouls prints intime to be sent sea mail at the museum and am sending off by the same route what and will be sent by first class sea mail at the museum and am sending off by the same route what accumulated mail at the outside; keeping Hesperias A.J.A.'s and Xmas cards looks worthy from the return. pending your return.

No doubt you have had correspondence with Ellen about the demands of the Smithson and Dear Henry. There are for a section-plan of a cistern, and profiles of two Mottled Oliver bowls. On Smithson's instructions I went through all the profiles and plans and drawings in the wardrobe trunk, or is it possible No success. Perhaps they are locked up in the footlocker. Anyway I have been through all thousand of that such never existed anyway/ Anyway I have been through all thousand of those damn drawings twice with no luck and am not anxious to go through them again.

I talked with Fro about your activities in the fall term. It seemed to us best to leave it this way: we would both prefer that you have you here this faif it is possible; but if Curium affairs demand that you stay beyond the beginning of the fall term (and if Curium finished, then go to Athens allow it) the rest of the better stay at Curium until finished. But if Curium allows fall term to work in philadelphia for the stuff there. But if Curium allows that you be back in Philadelphia for the fall term, then come back; and next year (1955) you could take the fall term off and go to Athens when finished at Gordion. I hope about it; and he feels that while the Hellenistic pottery is urgent it is not as urgent as all to which comes first, the pottery the lamps and the terracottas it is a question as to which comes first, the lamps or the egg; but Homer thinks the pottery more primitive. However the lamps are nowhere near ready; in fact Dick Howland will be in Athens in the spring and summer to work on them again. So they are certainly not very imminent.

The Lipschitz exhibition by the way has proved to be very expensive and has thereforee been postponed until next year, or later. I am dickering for purchase of a marble head from a relief: Trajanic. We have none too many marble it would go well with the big Putteli relief and it is cheap - asking pric $200. It is now at Bryn Mawr to be looked over by Rhys Ely and with his approval I will present it to the board and meeting tomorrow for purchase from my only the Sharpe fund. I am certain it is all right and think it is a wartime theft. Princeton reservation being that it is possible that it is a wartime theft. Princeton got stuck with one, and when they found out they offered to give it back spec and were told they could have it. In my case I think $200 would be wll spent in getting this piece under control.

Considerable progress in the home. Yesterday I unpacked your books and put them in the bookcase (they filled two of the new bookcases I had just bought ght.) They filled too heavy to lug upstairs for deposit in your room; so I unpacked and seemed too heavy to lug upstairs for deposit in your room; so I unpacked them. Now that is done, and each weekend the house becomes more habitable. At the moment they are laying new linoleum on the kitchen floor (at the exp se of the landlord) and I will be glad to stop tripping over the holes … continues