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Nicosia 15 November
Dear Sir,
It is now a little more than a week that I have been working at the Nicosia Museum (I began on 6 Nov.) and it is progressing in a satisfactory way. For the 1946 harvest, I have finished the catalogue of all the important objects and the marking of a selection of sherds. I still have to re-examine the contents of the tombs. All the sherds of this campaign have been cleaned and I have taken from the bags what seemed to me most interesting. I have not grouped the objects by archaeological levels, not having the excavation journal, but it is a task which can be done fairly quickly now that everything is marked. I have resumed the same process for the 1947 campaign: there it goes faster, since a good number of things were already marked. Moreover in order to take full advantage of my presence here and of my examination of these objects, I obtained, thanks to the kindness of Megaw and Dikaios, the collaboration of the Museum's photographer and draughtsman, which will allow to take away substantial documentation. All this going very well, I thought it worth advancing the work a little and I decided to stay until Saturday 20 Nov., the day on which there is a plane to Athens. I could not, for lack of time, ask you for the authorisation, but I do not think that this extension increases excessively the expenses: I am at the George Hotel where I have a halfboard of 12 s. and I think that all things considered, this small surplus … continues
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