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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 2 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 2 of 2

Printed: AFFAIRES ÉTRANGÈRES

Printed: EN CLAIR

Printed: TÉLÉGRAMME AU DÉPART

Handwritten: illegible scribble, top right

3 January 1949

I, the undersigned, confirm having received from Mr the Consul of France at Malta and Cyprus, through the intermediary of Mr LAIGNE, agent consular of France at Larnaca, the sum of 1.400 Livres (mille quatre cent livres), credit opened by the Directorate General of Cultural Relations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to the French Archaeological Mission for its research in Cyprus in 1948.

Handwritten: signature

Claude F.-A. SCHAEFFER Director of the French Archaeological Mission, Secretary General of the Commission of Excavations, Director at the National Centre for Scientific Research.

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

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