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base of mutual confidence and friendship on which our fruitful and combined work could prosper & develop. This is a very sad experience for me. I have launched the idea of and finally created in 1947 th a the the Maison Fr. in at the Univ. of Oxford, as now an official link between the Sorbonne & Oxford where scholars of both Univ. can & can work together & meet. & This Institute built now prospers is prospering & contributes greatly to mutual understanding among the young generation of Oxf. & Paris scholars. I have always been a keen advocate of for Brit - French collaboration, on which to my opinion peace in Europe greatly rests . When proposing to you, in after final discovery of the town site, and without need of help or, financial, or scientific or other, to share my work, and the benefit of my discovery it was again made in the same spirit of to associating Br & French & British scholars archaeologist in a combined endeavour. We expected In renouncing even to at the same time deliberately on some of the fruits of my efforts & discovery at Enk, I thought the site will
[margin right: I do not know if you have ever written a book in which you had to deal with the problem of scientif. property of a colleague or colleagues. I now finished my Kettle volume which gave me will ample opportunity of to showing how I handle that delicate question. What concerns For the past, I have conducted for th since 20 years now presided & guided a team of scholars which work together freely & with confidence & I think I can say to have succeeded in that endeavour. I preserve keep also a letter written to me by your curator to me in which he thanked me for the way I made acknowledg. in Strat. Comp. his scientific work, some results of which where entrusted to me before publication, and referred to only 3 years later after the author had himself published his views on chronology of the B. A. and orig. of copper mining in Cyprus. ] … continues
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