Correspondence·PU-Mu 1050, Box 3, folder 1·1978–1980

1978–1980

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

Scan 37 of correspondence PU-Mu 1050, Box 3, folder 1 (1978–1980), typed and handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 3, folder 1, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 37 of 87

[printed: DOROTHY KENT HILL 249 WEST THIRTY-FIRST STREET BALTIMORE, MARYLAND 21211]

Aug. 25, 1978Dear Roger, - In haste - to beat the mail strike.

No, I just can't publish those bronzes. Hundreds of little scraps, called "bronze forg" or something, and I could not cull them anything else. And scattered about 2 continents. Don't know whether I'll be back in Cyprus, but certainly I'll not be near the Nicosia Mus.

Sorry to disappoint you, and I do appreciate your offer, but I just can't stand this kind of job. I stumbled on the Walters lot after I discovered how many scraps there were - and that I could never identify them. I don't … continues

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

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