Letter·34 CDF art. 168-3·2 July 1951

Letter from Megaw to Schaeffer on Enkomi I and the preliminary reportArthur Hubert Stanley Megaw

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Scan 2 of letter 34 CDF art. 168-3 (Letter from Megaw to Schaeffer on Enkomi I and the preliminary report), typed in English. The transcription follows.

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the necessary funds, as well as those who are engaged on the work.

Bronze bowl from your tomb 2. To my great surprise this had not reached the British Museum Laboratories when I called there a month ago. I have since had enquires made of the British Embassy in Paris as to its whereabouts and await a reply.

I look forward to seeing you back here in the autumn.

[handwritten: with regards to you and Mme Schaeffer from my wife and myself]

Handwritten: yours sincerely

Handwritten: A.H.S. Megaw

Handwritten: ready now

Handwritten: I have put Dikaios in a nest full of eggs, discovered by me, where he has now only to pick the eggs. I sanguinely tried by his unacceptable

[handwritten: I shall ask for authority to call this unhappy business to an end. For I am not prepared to have my happy work and discoveries at Enkomi spoilt by the a colleague accepted but who, as I now feel is barely ...]

Handwritten: ... about it and reconcile ... I hope you will be ready ... ... for his ...

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