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The Cyprus Museum Nicosia, 22.5.59.
Dear Professor Schaeffer,
I apologise for the delay in answering your letter of 30th April. May I first say how proud I feel for the confidence which you have in my person, I hope to prove worthy of it. Your letter to His Beatitude is very appropriate, I am sure he was delighted to read it. I quite appreciate what you said about the "timing" of any steps for our plans. When you come next October there will be many opportunities to talk these matters over. About the future of the Excavations at Enkomi you will have all the time and opportunities to discuss matters with responsible people here, and I assure you their broad-mindedness will be different from what you have experienced here up-to now. Needless to re-assure you about my own feelings and good intensions. For the last few days I have been excavating a
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