Correspondence between Megaw and Schaeffer on the breakdown of collaboration between the French and Cypriot missionsClaude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer and Arthur Hubert Stanley Megaw

Institut Français d'Archéologie, B.P. 14.24, Beyrouth 14-10-50

Dear Mr. Megaw,

I got your letter dated 16 k. Aug. here after some delay. I am glad to know, that the termination of our association will not embitter our personal connections. In life things turn not out always as one wishes. But I hope that we will feel later that the step taken was right.

I am very interested in the new material of and underfloor T of which you informe me in your last § of the front page of your letter. I shall look through it with great hope.

As you suggest all further problems will belle, be discussed when I am coming to Nicosia.

I am off to-morrow by plane to Istanbul to join the congress for 2 or 3 days. Then I am going to Ankara to discuss matters with the Tut Serv. and fly then to Malatya where we have a series of stratigraphical sections to finish. Forrer will be there before me to prepare the work.

I hope to be back in Beyr. end of Sept. And after a day or two of further discussion in Damascus from there I come, I am ready to come over to Nicosia.

I think I can say that during the 1st week of October I shall arrive there.

I have got, just before leaving the report of Plenderleith, of his treatment of the inlaid "bronze bowl" of Tombe II, Enkomi 1949. He did an astonishing job. The bowl turned out to be of silver (with copper alloy as the patina covitalet the metal) and beautifully inlaid with gold & silver showing a frieze of splendid