Correspondence·PU-Mu 1050, Box 2, folder 9·January–April 1954

January–April 1954

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

Scan 38 of correspondence PU-Mu 1050, Box 2, folder 9 (January–April 1954), typed and handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 2, folder 9, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 38 of 143

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… whether it is available in Athens. These are all thoughts in the meteor; it is a good project if we can work it (& it would be nice if we could be interested in Lapithos too). But again, from the Philosophical Society possibility it really depends on what sort of a team you can turn up, and whether in declare available or possible available team, we're cured or of very little use - unless you could do a deal with Cyprus Mines or the like, to turn the pounds and dollars dollars of this into We both wonder about Mersinondhia - first have we have ever heard of it. Is it a magnificent tomb? How big a proportion - i.e., if it is extremely would it cost anything more than time and perlens photography? You know how sensitiv the is about any hint of an expert in Cyprus projects. We are puzzled about this, and cannot see & the fragment. Are the stones being held up by the prospect of a dividant, or by the local crows or what? Nothing new here. Have not heard anything from S[illegible]eman; and March 1st is closing date for fellowship applications. Edith Porada is today: she may go to Cyprus this summer, & if so will visit Curium (about 10 July - 10 Aug.) as well as Nicosia. - she wants to have enam petros, if around, do Petro's scenes, & of Pissourios! Will she find them? Best love to both

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

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