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Tuesday 1st October. 1h a.m. +25o C. at 6h 22 1/2o C. - Excavations stopped 1/2 day off. I take the opportunity to introduce 1 day's halt in the middle of each week to allow the bringing up to date of the excavation notebooks, the observation notes , inventory and selection of pottery of the collaborators. And to break the accumulated fatigue. - 6 1/2 instead of 6h lunch: me writing 11 letters + 5 postcards. (letters: Karageorgh., Brentjes, Fanton, Odile, Mallowan, Nougayrol, Labat, Desroches Abdelnour, Sejrij, Abdul Hak; postcards: children of Odile, Castion, Leyden, Erotokritou, Dimitri. Sea bath from 11 1/2 to 12 3/4. Lunch, rest, resume letters and fix Johnstone's employment etc. Have workshop tidied etc. Evening alone at the Commissioner's reception for the festival of independence, dep. 8 1/4, return 9 h 1/4. Greet the Comm. excuse the mission, speak with former amb. of Ch. in Cairo now Provis. of the Lycée. - Bed 9 h 1/2. Fine, calm.
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