Letter·34 CDF art. 168-4·9 November 1947

Telegram from Coche de la Ferté to Schaeffer on the progress of the excavationsÉtienne Coche de La Ferté

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Handwritten in French. Every line is transcribed and translated, and the English sits beside the scan.

Scan 1 of letter 34 CDF art. 168-4 (Telegram from Coche de la Ferté to Schaeffer on the progress of the excavations), handwritten 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 1 of 3

Printed: LEBANESE REPUBLIC | الجمهورية اللبنانية | نموذج رقم ٧٠١

[printed: ADMINISTRATION OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONSادارة البريد والمواصلات السلكية واللاسلكية العامةرقم التسجيل] ١١٢

Printed: اشارات الاخذ Receipt indications | برقية واردة Incoming telegram | Address — العنوان

LC Schaeffer
Institut Français
He9/11 [stamp: BEYROUTH] [printed: خاتم التاريخ Date stamp]Rue general Picot
A330Bth

Printed: رقم التسلسل Serial no. | المصدر Origin | رقم البرقية Telegram no. | عدد الكلمات No. of words | التاريخ Date | الساعة Time | اشارات المصلحة والطريق Service and route notations

68Famagusta47251/5281900imp.

Received your letter this evening Saturday stop work going well stop today reduced staff 50 - % stop no finds sensational stop a residence period mainly Post-Mycenaean cleared near rampart stop rampart cleared almost entirely over 160 metres not

Printed: The State is not liable for correspondence exchanged by telegraph | الادارة لا تتحمل مسؤولية ما من جراء المراسلات البرقية

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

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