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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 8 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 8 of 12

Printed: (Form F. 18.)

Printed: GOVERNMENT OF CYPRUS.

Printed: L 43027

Stamp: DIRECTOR OF ANTIQUITIES, Office.

Stamp: 18 OCT 1951

Printed: 19

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

[handwritten: Two hundred] [printed: pounds] [printed: shillings and] [printed: p.]

[printed: being][handwritten: payment of Honoraria & Contribution of Fund for expenses of [illegible]]

[handwritten: [illegible]]

[printed: £][handwritten: 400]

[printed: Signature][handwritten: signature]

[printed: Title][handwritten: [illegible]]

Stamp: revenue stamp, vertical, cancelled

Printed: 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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