Letter from Schaeffer to Hamit Bey Kosay on excavation permits and entry visasClaude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer

Directorate General of Cultural Relations. ----

11 May 1946

The Acting Secretary General of the Commission of Excavations

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Dear Director Hamit Bey Kosay, Director General of the Antiquities and Museums Service and Museums, ANKARA.

Dear Director General,

I have the honour of informing you that the Archaeological Mission charged with resuming excavations at Malatya under the direction of Professor C.F.A. Schaeffer, Director of Research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Curator of the Musées de France, will embark on 10 June for Beirut, from where it hopes to reach Ankara by rail before the end of the month.

I would be grateful if you would kindly provide Professor Schaeffer with the necessary excavation permit.

With a view to obtaining the entry visa at the Consulate General of Turkey in Beirut, I would be obliged if you would inform the competent authorities of the arrival of the Mission, composed as follows:

Professor C.F.A. Schaeffer, Director of the Mission Mr Coche de la Ferté, Assistant Archaeologist, Mr Paul Pironin, architect, and possibly Mr M. Vieyra, assistant archaeologist.

Please accept, Dear Director General, the expression of my distinguished regards.

The Acting Secretary General of the Commission of Excavations.