Letter from Schaeffer to Megaw on scientific conclusions, disagreements over results and the dissolution of the collaborationClaude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer

hope you desire as I do to avoid showing publically now our different opinion on the stratigraphy and chronology of the site. When the excavation in your mainbuilding is terminated and your curator has in hand all necessary material, you are free to publish your opinion and I shall be able then, or others shall be able, with reference to the published finds made in and under floor V by your curator, to give eventually a different analysis. I again repeat : it is a matter of a few weeks only to undertake this research after which a preliminary and a final report of stratigraphy and chronology of your building can be undertaken without undue risk. Please have this reexamination and additional research done now, I assure you, you will not regret it. And it has to be done in any case.

Reference to your curator's report in my volume I. As my conclusions are so different from those of your curator, I cannot without criticism refer to them now. In any case, the author (and you if you associate yourself with his views) has first to take publically the responsability in printed form of his findings before I, or other scholars, can refer to them in the customary form. You will see in my volume that reference is made to the partner expedition where ever it is possible and that I thanked you and your curator for the support given me by your Department and the Museum during my work. But of your curator's