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Letter·34 CDF art. 168-4·3 January 1949

Letter from Schaeffer to the Consul acknowledging receipt of the sum of 1400 poundsClaude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer

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Typed in French. Every line is transcribed and translated, and the English sits beside the scan.

Scan 1 of letter 34 CDF art. 168-4 (Letter from Schaeffer to the Consul acknowledging receipt of the sum of 1400 pounds), typed in French. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art. 168-4, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

Unnumbered pageScan 1 of 2

Printed: AFFAIRES ÉTRANGÈRES

Printed: TÉLÉGRAMME AU DÉPART

Handwritten: ENKO (handwritten, rotated)

Printed: EN CLAIR

3 January 1949

I, the undersigned, confirm having received from Monsieur the Consul of France at Malta and Cyprus, through the intermediary of Monsieur LAPIERRE, consular agent of France at Larnaca, the sum of 1.400 Livres (one thousand four hundred livres), credit opened by the Direction Générale des Relations Culturelles at the Ministère des Affaires Etrangères for the French Archaeological Mission's research in Cyprus in 1948.

Handwritten: signature

Claude F.-A. SCHAEFFER Director of the French Archaeological Mission, Secretary General of the Commission des Fouilles, Director at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain

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