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I agreed in spite of the fact that you choose an area in the middle of my research, where, as I cabled back, there are interesting buildings to be expected according to my previous soundings. My pronostic as you know was right.
I have thus shown that I endeavour to adhere in letter and spirit to the agreed undertaking. I would be glad, if you would decide now to do so also and give me satisfaction be excavating to the rock, the vital area of the building of the statue, for the reasons stated above and stated before in writing and by verbal information to you.
When this is done, as I have done it with regard to the so-similar building 18 in my 1949 and 1950 excavations, than and than only is the time to develop a preliminary report (if you wish to fix your ideas before the final account) of the historical conclusions regarding the important "temple" building above which the statue has been found.
If you decide otherwise, I would be grateful for sending me the draft. If I feel it necessary, I would, as we verbally agreed in your curator's office in 1950, add a note to be published simultaneously, in which I can voice my eventual different opinion. It is laid down in § 8 of the charter that I exercise general editorial control over the publications concerning the site I have discovered and the po interpretation of which concerns my personal research and that of the French Mission there. I very much
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