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If I am left with a balance greater than $1,900. of George's personal account I can probably plead also that the $9,006.; as could happen, represents original dollar deposits and that we should be allowed to exchange up to that amount in additional dollars. And if I had to, I could probably prove that George paid for the passport and CA stocks in dollars originally too. I think he did. Also, if it goes through as planned, Emily will pay into our account here over $2,000. for me to distribute to the staff. This may prove helpful in the final exchange here, since it will represent dollars transferred from her bank.
As to the equipment purchase project, I judge my remarks about Emily's plans for gifts from the charity bequest to Episkopi, and Limassol did not reach you in time for be included in Pro's telephone conversation with Mr. Ewing. As far as I know, the estate does not expect to have any other pound assets here at the end. Emily's charity projects here would almost certainly make no difference to the estate than the $3000. charities in dollars, and probably it would prefer to pay the charities in dollars rather than run a risk in taking your a pound credit here. But perhaps at the end, if the charities have not yet been paid, and we really are stuck for exchange, we could arrange to pay the charities for them here against their dollar payment to us in America. It would be an amiability on their part, but they might be willing to do it.
These are my best speculations to date. Some of them ought to be fertile, if not all!
As to other matters: you had mentioned the possibility that there might still be some money left in the Sotira excavation fund, so I took it up with Dikaios, and quite unintentionally roused a dog. AND There is no money left, in fact there is a deficit of £1-0-0. AND he feels it necessary to dig some more in May before he finishes the publication, and would I please provide £120-0-0!
I suppose I must respect his opinion that further work must be done, and I don't see how I can get out of it gracefully. So there I am. I haven't actually said I would provide it, so there is still time to think up some way out, perhaps. So think hard for me, if you feel we should not incur this additional expense.
About the Sotira publication, he is just about ready to sit down and write up what he has done, and he hopes it will be on paper before the projected May excavation, so that he can then test theories and fill in gaps.
As to the actual publication format he asked me to explore the Museum's opinion. Pro had told him that we could put it out in the Monograph series. He anticipates roughly that Sotira will turn out to be about half the size of the Khirokitia volume, which is 440 pages and some 150 plates. It feels it necessary to make Sotira that full a publication since it is as yet the only site representative of its particular phase of Neolithic in Cyprus, and he would prefer to wait to publish until he can put it out that fully rather than condense it in order to the volume is much too great for the Monograph series. Is there a possibility that the Philosophical Society would finance a volume of such size for us, and would the Museum be willing to recommend it?
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