Letter from Schaeffer to Westholm on recent publications and requesting photographs, with Westholm's visiting cardClaude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer

Printed: letterhead, faint and illegible

Handwritten: 23 May 1939.

Dear Dr Westholm,

I thank you for sending the offprint of your study on the tombs of Kilia. I shall have the opportunity to cite this study when I take up certain works on Cyprus that I had not been able to publish in my text Kition en Chypre.

[illegible] testimony that my publisher has just sent me a volume of the Missions [illegible] I had not asked him to do, but the volume had indeed arrived not noticed in Egypt. If not, please let me know.

I have just returned from my 1st campaign of excavations at Ras Shamra, [illegible] was very fruitful. We have also found new [illegible] Mycenaean.

I am at present writing a study of a Syrian or Cypro-Mycenaean krater from Ras Shamra which bears the same theme as a other. It is similar to other scenes that I explore. Enclosed to compare this krater with those that appear and you found at Enkomi and published in Swedish Cyprus Expedition, vol. I. Certain details that interest me are not clearly visible in the reproductions given. Could you send me photographs of the kraters mentioned above, Fr. E 8.181, E 9.164, E 11.90 and pl. CXI, Fr. E 8.296 and E 17.1. I would be grateful for photographs if you cannot dispose of them permanently.

I take this opportunity to tell you that I intend