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Dear Megaw, Thank you for your letter of Dec. 28th and the nice 1951 calendar which is so delightful a souvenir of that lovely island. The air-photograph, for which I thank you, came unfortunately over in a very bad state, crushed & torn and is not publishable. If later on, you could send me another, I would be grateful.
I did not understand the meaning of a passage in your letter to which I attach much importance. You say that there is no need to correct some statements in the article of ILN and, I suppose, especially in the headlines for which, as I told Dik., I am not responsable & which have been introduced by the editor. - And then you continue: "as regards the others it is open to us to correct what has been published when future items of archaeological news about Enkomi appear. If this is done, I think there will be no real need for any further publication until the full report can be put in hand after our next season." Does this mean that you intend to publish articles concerning matters of stratigraphy and chronology of your building before the final report? If so, I would beg you again to postpone them until more evidence for the dating is available (see already my letter of nov. 14 th, 3° §).
I have shown you by my letter written on the evening after our joined inspection of Dikaios' dig, that I am ready to correct my mistakes and opinions as soon as I am feeling that this is necessary to be in accord with the stratigraphical indications. I have no prejudice against Dik. and your late dating of the building. But as I told you both after my last season, posterieus to Dik.' dig, the stratigraphical observations at the base of my great building so similar to yours … continues
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