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Margin top, written upside down: me to send our best regards to
Margin top, written upside down: Madame Dussaud with my respectful homage.
Margin top, written upside down: To you, my dear Master, affectionately yours
Margin top, written upside down: C. Schaeffer.
It is a serious threat to our excavations and our installation at Baie Blanche. A conflict has broken out between Salles and Faral. To ease matters, S. proposed the secondment procedure so as to keep me within the framework of the conservators with a view to the succ. – temp. St. Germ. on Lantier's departure. F. does not want it and S. believes that it is over questions of prestige of the C. Fr. They had a very heated telephone altercation, of which S. and on the other side Courrier, adm. by interim, informed me. Clearly my entry into this house stirs up storms from which I have difficulty keeping sheltered. I am in any case obliged to return for the opening session (28 Nov) of the Collège and will see you at this occasion. I shall have to return to R. S. to finish the work, expenses and fatigues that I would have liked to avoid. — The Dept. of Antiquities asked me for the usual communiqué for the local press and London at the end of the work. I enclose a note for the Academy if you would kindly undertake to present it to it. Please pass on to Mr Merlin on this occasion all my cordial regards. — My wife joins
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