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 7 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 7 of 165

Can't say just yet when the trip will be. Of course it will have to be when I have absolutely closed up shop here, if I am to take Rover along with me. Unless you think it advisable to make an early trip to get the sherds to gether and start the machinery and the latter final trip to hound them into actually handing over. Whatever you say.

Britannica article. One could indeed be wooed. I don't exactly understand Encyclopedia does sound exciting, especially now I've read the what interest Mr. K. has in our doing it, though. Doesn't it seem a little odd to you? Carl's fiasco really is a stunner! And here I've been worrying about having to submit an account showing that food costs us a dollar a day, or more per person in Cyprus!

Went for a motorcycle ride on Sunday in the foothills. It seemed like old times. Only here, when we stopped for a coffee in a village square, the crowd ignored us completely! Not very like Greece, is it? I think the motherland will wonder what kind of children she has taken to her bosom if Knosis ever occurs!

Yrs.,

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

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