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As to the projected purchase of the Bamboula excavation land: I have written Saul for his recommendations about the necessity for keeping open the trenches concerned. The visible remains are in the architectural and he would know best how important they are in the general picture. I have furnished Peter the necessary plans for the Gov't agent who will handle the bargaining. We are not necessary for If the price isn't right, we can still say no. There was also a question archaeological reasons, we can think the purchase not necessary for purchase that we defer payment to the end. I agree that if we do raised about the possibility of our helping to purchase plots at the modern entrance to Curium acropolis. I am indifferent on this, but saw no harm in having the Gov't agent get a price on them while he than in the case of Bamboula. We can say no to this too, and I am inclined to was at it.
Many thanks for observations on prospective division of spoils. They will guide us.
The withholding statement has arrived, for which I also thank you. Did you by any chance send on my application for 1954 driver's license in the batch you forwarded? I assume that batch is coming by surface mail, since it hasn't arrived yet.
All for today, except report that Seton Lloyd's new dig, beginning in May, is to be at a site on the plateau in the Maeander valley, and promises Hittite fortifications and Mycenaean sherds. Machteld will be agog.
Respectfully submitted,
Handwritten: signature
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