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Letter·34 CDF art. 169·1 February 1969

Schaeffer, Vrachas and a publisher on an excavation summary for the Cypriot CongressClaude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer and Frixos P Vrachas

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Handwritten in English and French. Every line is transcribed and translated, and the English sits beside the scan.

Scan 3 of letter 34 CDF art. 169 (Schaeffer, Vrachas and a publisher on an excavation summary for the Cypriot Congress), handwritten in English and French. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art. 169, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

Unnumbered pageScan 3 of 6

Printed: L'ESCALE / LA CROIX-VALMER / B. P. 16. / VAR. 83

Stamp: 84

7. II. 69 (15 in Paris) Dear Director and Friend, I hope that your Curator has found the original of the inscribed scroll of 1968, returned as far as I remember, with the cult chariot in Oct. 1968. I would be reassured by a word, for your request worried me since I had no receipt. — Please find enclosed a copy of my reply to Mr Vrachas. Ne I truly and very sincerely regret not being able to provide this fine summary, which would have given me pleasure to write. But the deadline is too short. — Sincerely yours

C F A Schaeffer.

P.S. For the exhibition of these objects, please add a remark: Unpublished. I am publishing them (Chariot) in Enk.-Al. II in preparation. and the scroll by Masson in the Jubilee vol., to appear in 1969/70

65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain

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