Correspondence and notes between Schaeffer, Megaw and Hoodward on Enkomi objects and Khan employeesArthur Hubert Stanley Megaw and Claude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer

Institut Français d'Archéologie, B.P. 14.2.4, Beyrouth. 1st December 1949.

Handwritten: signature

Dear Megaw,

Many thanks for your letter of November 24th and for the arrangements you made to accelerate the mending of the Enkomi pottery during the stay of Michael in Nicosia.

Thank you also for the letter of the C.O. of H.M.S. Ariadne. Porter has brought me the 4 Petrikides seals and I am glad to have them and include all eight into my corpus. I have examined again the cylinder of Egyptian style. Judging from the plasticine impression, it seems genuine, but I confess I don't remember the aspect of the original. Therefore, if you have any doubts, don't buy it before I am back but have it reserved in the meantime.[handwritten: (M)]

I would be grateful if you would send me a copy of the papers referring to my lecture at the museum. I enclose the draft for the communiqué to the press following our departure from the island and I leave it to you to translate it into English. ... Also from this communiqué please send me a press copy to the above address, by ordinary mail of course.

Please give Mikaios my best souvenirs.

[handwritten: Very sincerely yours, Schaeffer (handwritten sign-off and postscript in blue ink, upside down, partly illegible; includes a note on "Mr. Hoodward" and figures "£" and "10 ft" [illegible])]

Mr. A.H.S. Megaw, Director of the Cyprus Department of Antiquities.