Letter from Lapierre to Schaeffer in reply to his letter of 3 JanuaryJ Lapierre

Printed: AGENCE CONSULAIRE DE FRANCE

Printed: A LARNACA

Printed: (ILE DE CHYPRE)

Printed: République Française

LARNACA, 16 January 1948

Handwritten: 2/ 4 copies

Handwritten: Dear Consul,

Handwritten: Yesterday Barclays Bank received for me your letter of 16 January and a reply ... that your pupils made ... of the visit they made ... to our excavations at Enkomi.

Handwritten: Barclays Bank has advised me of the payment of £ 438 1380/6/6 that you kindly made to my account, of a payment of £ 1900 that the ... research at Enkomi this year ... allocated me for ... from the budget of the ... of 1948 ... excavations of the Dir. Ch. Rel. Cult., Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Handwritten: As a result of budget cuts, the subsidy ... that of all the other missions has had to be considerably reduced.

Handwritten: This year's subsidy will be used in part for the preparation of the publication of our 1946-1947 excavations and for the indispensable purchases of land, in which the Dept. of Antiquities of Cyprus takes half a share. - I nevertheless hope to be able to make a short excavation campaign to complete the clearing of the tr... building which remained for us the small...

Handwritten: I objects in bronze. ... I therefore hoped to see you again and a joined to have.

Dear Sir,

I was deeply touched by the good wishes you kindly sent me, enclosing the fine enlargement of the photo you took during our visit to the excavation area at Enkomi.

It will certainly be a great pleasure to meet you again in Cyprus next Autumn.

I am returning the film with the thanks of our pupils, who all took a print of it as a memento of that so interesting visit and of your kind explanations.

Please accept, Dear Sir, with my best wishes and good wishes for the New Year (a little late but very sincere) the assurance of my very high consideration.

Handwritten: signature

Handwritten: Please believe, Dear Sir, in the expression of my devoted sentiments.

Mr Claude F.A. Shaeffer.