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Handwritten: Exhibit / Dikaios / P.D.
[handwritten: official reply.] Dear Sir,
I received your letter dated July 18th stating that no licence will be granted in respect of the site of Enkomi without prior reference to the Directors of the Ras Shamra Expedition. I thank you for this information.
Handwritten: yours truly
The Director of the British [handwritten: Expedition] Nicosia Cyprus
Handwritten: letter to Dk + Miss P.
Handwritten: Mr P. Dikaios, Nicosia
My dear friend, I replied to you with great eagerness and thank you again for the arrangement made by your department.
I think with great pleasure of the week spent with you and on this charming island that you made for me. And your hospitality was so cordial, and I hope to be able one day to welcome you to our home.
Alas, our house at H. J. was bombed and looted. Everything was carried off by the Germans returning from Paris. Everything was carried off by the Germans, large furniture. The [illegible] library was burned in the heating stove by the Gestapo, who had occupied the house since 1943, after a genealogy had been seized since 1940. — Such thing as a genealogy had been [illegible]
[handwritten: [marginal handwriting in right margin and top right corner, illegible]]
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain