Letter·34 CDF art. 168-3·Undated

Letter from Coche de la Ferté to Schaeffer on the end of the excavation areaÉtienne Coche de La Ferté

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

Scan 2 of letter 34 CDF art. 168-3 (Letter from Coche de la Ferté to Schaeffer on the end of the excavation area), typed in French. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art. 168-3, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

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11 October

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My dear friend,

I wrote to you that I could not see you this morning I will keep in the office [illegible] of our [illegible] before from here the [illegible] to begin a [illegible] of [illegible] to do something.

As for the numbered tombs tombs [illegible] the [illegible] of the tomb of Tuesday there is no [illegible] the tombs of XII and XIII of the year [illegible] but the tomb [illegible] is [illegible] I have not [illegible] the [illegible] there is [illegible] [illegible] of [illegible] I have noticed that it is [illegible] done [illegible] of the [illegible] I have [illegible] that this [illegible] has not [illegible] done [illegible].

As for the [illegible] I keep the plan, it may be that you [illegible] this [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible].

Handwritten: signature

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

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