Letter from Coche de la Ferté to Schaeffer on the organisation of the excavation siteÉtienne Coche de La Ferté

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… additional medical visits, the health control measures becoming periodically stricter (but remaining all as derisory, in the eyes of the layman at least, the sight of acrobats and conjurors in the port of Alexandria was in this respect, edifying!). Priour's arrival earns us therefore full possession of our financial means. But alas! this area worries me, despite the advance of 100 £ that Dikaios granted me; Priour will speak to you about it more knowledgeably and I hand him the floor.

I hope this letter reaches you before your departure, I have wished, in order to write it, to wait until the work was under way, let us hope that this will not compromise its arrival at its destination.

Please accept, dear Sir, my respectful remembrance and convey my regards to Mrs. Schaeffer.

E. Coche de la Ferté

P.S. As regards the real or exaggerated seriousness reported by the newspapers of the epidemic in Egypt and its spread, I can tell you nothing having no serious information on this point. —