Correspondence·PU-Mu 1050, Box 2, folder 10·May–December 1954

May–December 1954

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

Scan 43 of correspondence PU-Mu 1050, Box 2, folder 10 (May–December 1954), typed and handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 2, folder 10, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 43 of 165

THE UNIVERSITY MUSEUM 33RD AND SPRUCE STREETS PHILADELPHIA 4, PA., U.S.A. R.S.V.

AIR LETTER

Mr. G. R. R. Edwards, Curium Excavations, Episkopi, Limassol, CYPRUS

MESSAGE MUST APPEAR ON INNER SIDE ONLY NO TAPE OR STICKER MAY BE ATTACHED

IF ANYTHING IS ENCLOSED, THIS LETTER WILL BE SENT BY ORDINARY MAIL

Stamp: AIR MAIL / PAR AVION

Stamp: PHILADELPHIA PA JUL 1954 9PM

Stamp: LIMASSOL CYPRUS 28 JUL 54 9:15AM

Stamp: 27 JUL 54 PM

Printed: AIR MAIL 10¢ U.S. postage stamp

Right page

[illegible] Dec 23 - 1953

Typed letter continues over the inner sheet: the body of the letter is a typed text in English of several paragraphs about excavation work, the house, the staff and their plans for the season, with occasional hand-corrected words; the lines are too faint and compressed on the scan to transcribe reliably beyond this point.

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

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