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dig this year. So we could employ as much as 100 workmen if we can find them, but I do not wish to return to the old system of work with couples. I hope you can lend us again the services of Mikhael Vaios & I would like you to ask to do your best to get him free to join us on the arrival of Kuss & my other assistants towards the end of the month. – May I ask you to order for us another 25 of the small picks we use as well as you in our work? All other tools we can find ready made on arrival & as soon as the number of workmen is known. – I hope general conditions remain calm in the country. My wife, who still suffers from an infectious jaundice caught in Ras Shamra last automn, if she can come with me, looks forwards to see you both & Cyprus again and in this case we shall have the visit of our son in law Prof Robinson, annual professor at the Amer. Sch. f. Or. Res the next year … continues
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