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 57 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 57 of 143

Athens, 23 Feb. 1954

Dear Roger, I was very glad to have your letter, which came the next day after I did, even if you did begin by reminding me that I hadn't answered an earlier one. When I called on Mrs Harrison at the beginning of January I found that she was intending herself to take care of the 10% George has promised [that is an obligation of the Expedition really, but it is good to have her assume it] and of the gifts that George had once announced his intention of making or having made to the members of the staff who were longest with him -- Christo, Savva, Mustafa and, she agreed, Michali and Christoph (Andreas was, I understand, taken care of fully by George himself -- and perhaps Mustafa was, also) She expected you to act for her, or at any rate that the distribution of her gifts would follow your judgment. She told me also of the intention to use a part of George's charitable bequest for a smaller clinic or headquarters for the visiting Govt. physician at Episkopi. It is good that Dick Stillwell has decided to undertake preparation in publication of the Theater and Palace of Baths. I have a long ms. from

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