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Letter·34 CDF art. 168-1·1951

Correspondence between Megaw and Schaeffer on the display of a silver bowl at the British Museum and the end of their collaboration, with a copy of a letter from Megaw to HaynesClaude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer and Arthur Hubert Stanley Megaw

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Typed in English and French. Every line is transcribed and translated, and the English sits beside the scan.

Scan 7 of letter 34 CDF art. 168-1 (Correspondence between Megaw and Schaeffer on the display of a silver bowl at the British Museum and the end of their collaboration, with a copy of a letter from Megaw to Haynes), typed in English and French. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art. 168-1, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

Unnumbered pageScan 7 of 12

Printed: (Form F. 18.)

Printed: GOVERNMENT OF CYPRUS.

Stamp: I 430207

Stamp: DIRECTOR OF ANTIQUITIES Office.

Stamp: 18 OCT 1951

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Received from [handwritten: Dr. C.F.A.Schaeffer] the sum of

[handwritten: four hundred] pounds [handwritten: ———] shillings and [handwritten: ———] p.

being [handwritten: amount deposited]

Handwritten: towards ⅓ share of cost of

Handwritten: acquisition of land at Enkomi

£ [handwritten: 400] [handwritten: : :] p.

Signature [handwritten: signature]

Title [handwritten: Accounting Officer]

The counterfoil of this receipt should be signed or initialled by the person paying the money.

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

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