Letter from Lapierre to Schaeffer on the transfer of funds needed to continue the excavationsJ Lapierre

CONSULAR AGENCY OF FRANCE AT LARNACA (ISLAND OF CYPRUS)

French Republic

LARNACA, 15 October 1949

No.402

Telephone No.250

{hw: paid into Barclays 21.1.49]

Dear Director,

I hasten to acknowledge receipt of your kind letter of the 13th, which has just been handed to me (17h.). As you wished, I am sending you the sum of £ 994.11.6, the amount of the telegraphic transfer made by the Consulate of France in Malta, by a cheque on the Barclays Bank No.C9/402877.

I am glad to learn of the fine result of your campaign and I heartily share your satisfaction. Nothing could please you more than to see emerge under the spade and pick of your workmen the remains of a city of which you were the only "discoverer". I would like to be able to take advantage of your very kind invitation and I will do everything possible to come to Enkomi-Alasia before your departure for Damascus. Perhaps I shall be able to come next Saturday afternoon. I will confirm this plan by telephone 48 hours beforehand.

I think you are still at the King George hotel. I think I shall have a good chance of reaching you on the phone if I call a little before mealtimes, especially in the evening.

Please accept, Director, the assurance of my very high consideration.

Handwritten: signature

Mr Claude Schaeffer Director of the French Archaeological Mission