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it would have been possible to make reference to the existence of this report, but the idea did not come to me and, even now, I am at a loss loss to understand why I should have done it & for what purpose. When Dik. report in enlarged and I hope in very much more revised form will be ready, I shall be glad to add a preliminary note to emphasize your curator's efforts past & present, to refer eventually to the first report, to mention eventually aussi my criticism & its excessive harshness if Dik. can prouve conclusively that his ashlar building is LC III, as he believed & as you seemed to accept. I note however in this respect that in your notes on Cypriote Archaeology published in JHS LXXI, 1951, p. 258 and AJA, 56, 1952, p. 129 you do not mention this date & I am glad that I shall not have to contradict your opinion in further publications concerning the question. Indeed, as I told you already in my letter of January 10th, 1952, after my last
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