Letter from Megaw to Schaeffer on the costs of the seasonArthur Hubert Stanley Megaw

Printed: crest of Cyprus, with motto "HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE"

No. 36/36. DEPARTMENT OF ANTIQUITIES, CYPRUS.

Nicosia, 3rd June 1947.

Dear Dr. Schaeffer,

As we have now exhausted the £100 you advanced to meet expenses in connection with your Engomi excavations, I append a list of our expenditure up to 30th April 1947:

Wages of temporary watchman ... £19.18.7p. Fencing the excavations area ... 25. 0.0 Miscellaneous expenses ... 6.12.5 Compensation for non cultivation of certain lands within the excavations area ... ... 46. 0.0 Total £97.11.3p. =========

There are some outstanding items including £13 compensation not yet paid to one of the owners and £6 expenses in connection with the demarcation of the plots. The watchman's wages at the rate of £3 per month will also continue. Further expenditure, including the above, should not exceed £50 before you return to Cyprus.

As your £300 contribution for acquisitions has been received from Barclay's Bank and paid to your account in our Antiquities Fund, we shall have no difficulty in meeting the further expenditure. But I thought I should let you know the position in case you wished to keep the £300 intact for acquisitions, by making a further advance to us for the other expenditure.

Yours sincerely,

Handwritten: signature

Dr.C.F.A.Schaeffer,M.A. D.Litt., (Seine et Oise).