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

I do not know if you have ever written a book in which you had to deal with the problem of scientific property of a colleague or colleagues. I now finished my tenth volume which gave me ample opportunity to show how to handle this delicate question. What concerns the past, I have since 20 years now presided and guided a team of scholars which worked and work together freely and with confidence and I can say to have succeeded in that endeavour. I also cherish a letter written to me by your curator in which he thanks me for the way I have acknowledged in Stratigr. Comparée his scientific work, some results of which were entrusted to me before publication.

This is a very sad experience for me. I have launched the idea and finally created in 1947 the Maison Française in the University of Oxford, now an official link between the Sorbonne and Oxford, with the help of our Foreign Office and the support of friends in Oxford and its Governing body. This Institute where French & English scholars work together, now prosperous, contributes to mutual understanding among the younger generation of scholars of both nations.

I have always been a keen advocate of British-French collaboration on which, as I believe, peace and progress in Europe greatly rest. When