Unnumbered pageScan 7 of 8
Handwritten: C
Handwritten: Fam. Bank (Closed Wed. & Sat. - afternoon)
Handwritten: No. 356
CONSULAR AGENCY OF FRANCE AT LARNACA (ISLAND OF CYPRUS)
French Republic
LARNACA, 24 Aug. 1946
Handwritten: Barclays Bank Famagusta 5.VIII.1946 → 2194/8/4
The Consular Agent of France at Larnaca
To Mr Claude F.A.Schaeffer, Directors of Research National Centre for Scientific Research
ANKARA
Sir,
By letter of 16 Aug. received last evening you were good enough to inform me of your forthcoming arrival in Cyprus and to ask me to place at your disposal at the Barclays Bank in Nicosia the sum of £ 750 to be drawn against the credit of £ 2750 opened for you by the Directorate General of Cultural Relations.
In reply I have the honour to inform you that by telegram of the 20th inst. the Consul of France at Malta informs me that he has just transferred from the Barclays Bank in Malta to the Barclays Bank in Nicosia, to my order, two sums: £ 2708 and £ 42, i.e. in fact £ 2750 in total, which I am to hand over to you on your request less the bank charges.
To avoid multiple receipts and going back and forth between Nicosia and Larnaca, I am writing today to the management of the Barclays Bank in Nicosia to hold this credit at your disposal. I shall simply ask you to kindly agree to sign a receipt for this sum (in triplicate) at the moment you take responsibility for it.
I am sending a copy of this letter to Mr Dikaios so that, should this letter not reach you at Ankara, you may be immediately informed on your arrival.
Please accept, Sir, the assurance of my very high consideration.
Handwritten: signature
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain