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proposing to you, after final discovery of the townsite, and without need of help, financial or other, to share my work, it was made in the same spirit to associate French and British scholars in a combined endeavour. By renouncing at the same time deliberately on some of the fruits of my efforts and discoveries at Enkomi, I thought the site will be more rapidly excavated and Cypriote Archaeology will profit from it.
Dissolution of the combined Expedition. – After having on my free will proposed this association and entered into it, three years ago, it is now my duty to bring it to an end as it does not work to satisfaction. With reference to § 6 of the charter of the combined expedition, I therefore declare herewith, that from my side, as director of the French Archaeological Expedition, the combined venture is no longer desirable and that I want to return to my former status as inventor of the town site and sole excavator, until the time, I have to relinquish my rights as licensee.
It is my special desire that this combined expedition to be terminated in such a way that no harm may result to your department or your own interests or those of your curator. I therefore beg you to discuss the matter with the Colonial Secretary and to propose yourself the date (either end of 1951 or 1952) at which the combined expedition should be dissolved. From the French side there need be no official announcement. An
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