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Printed: CONSULATE OF FRANCE IN MALTA AND CYPRUS | FRENCH REPUBLIC
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Printed: 48, Old Bakery St.
Do not believe, indeed, that the excavations in Cyprus do not interest me. I had first, before going myself to Cyprus, been kept informed by Lapierre and by the Cypriot newspapers that I receive regularly, then during my stay in Cyprus in June 1946, although I was only able to devote 15 days (13 exactly) to the island of Paphos, I was able to travel to Famagusta, Limassol, Larnaca and Nicosia, and without having had time to go as far as EnKomi, I have indeed of course, visited with a very keen interest the museum in Nicosia, I followed with passion your discussions with the Swedes and your differences of view and the theft from the museum, which mainly affected the Swedes. I made the acquaintance not of Mr Dikaios but of the charming Mrs Dikaios. That good Lapierre had seemed a little contrite and vexed at not having received your visit (I know well that he is only a consular agent and that you are an eminent archaeologist,) and I let be understood at the Department that an epistolary contact before the arrival of an eminent compatriot and if possible a visit in Cyprus to my representative … continues
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