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… in Cyprus, would certainly give him pleasure, would flatter him and would flatter me equally, even if Lapierre is not very versed in archaeology. He is such an excellent man, and I myself am 2.200 Km from there. At my request Geuthner, whom I pester regularly for 20 years according to my wild whim of the moment has sent me, there is six months two very interesting books and very different. one, I suppose, is or could be by your father? Collection of voyages and documents to serve the history of geography since the XIIIe until the end of the XVIe century, Voyage of the Holy City of Jerusalem by Ch. Schefer member of the Institut 1882 where Cyprus is much discussed, and the Cornaro The other by yourself, Claude F.A. Schaefer Curator of the national museums, on your missions in Cyprus from 1932 to 1935, and which I have delighted in. Also I hope that my occupations lead me back to Cyprus, and I would be delighted as you propose to show me your excavations. Unfortunately I am kept more often than my turn in Malta, for I have with me neither vice Consul, nor attaché, nor Chancellor, nor clerk but two kind Maltese lady auxiliaries whom I have spent about 15 months, moreover, in training, for they did not know about a year ago more or less French or the typewriter,
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