Letter 34 CDF art. 168-3, Letter from Schaeffer to Megaw on scientific conclusions, disagreements over results and the dissolution of the collaboration, scan 1 (30 July 1951)

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Printed: MISSION ARCHÉOLOGIQUE

Printed: FRANÇAISE

Pardigon, par Cavalaire ^s/Mer (Var), 30. July 1951.

Dear Mr. Megaw,

I feel sorry to have to retreat to our former relationship. But after your letter of July 2., to which I reply here, I would be untrue not to act in accordance with my feelings.

Historical conclusions. I am surprised that you consider my conclusions of the same kind as those prepared by your curator in his first report after his first season. You seem to make no difference between his essay and the action of the inventor of the town site, who after several seasons of work and after having published Missions en Chypre (1934) and a long chapter on Cyprus chronology in Stratigraphie Comparée (1948) containing themselves historical conclusions, after the discovery of the mainbuilding so far found at Enkomi and after having explored it from top level to rock, undertakes now to lay down the general lines of the history of the site concerning its final phase (XIV.-XI. c.), so

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