Unnumbered pageScan 5 of 6
Monseigneur, As director of the oldest foreign Arch. Mission in your country, which has been questioning your soil so rich in hist. for a quarter of a century, I wish to present you my warmest wishes for your the the success of your high mission to lead to bring this fine country to a happy independence and to a fruitful cooperation with the other peoples nations, your neighbours and friends. I am convinced that that my own country, the year of the founding of the Republic of Cyprus having arrived, our own country<s> France/ would have an interest in developing its cultural relations with your country yours, is it not intimately and gloriously already intermingled with Cypriot hist. through the work and monuments of the de Crusaders? And the current archaeological activity of the Arch. Fr. Mission which discovered your Capital Alasia of the 2nd mill. at Enkomi near Fam., ne is it not a modest form of continuation of the friendship and of the mutual esteem that our countries have always had for one towards was always between them? My next excavation campaign at Enk.-Alasia will take place in Nov.-Dec. And I am glad to see your island again, which has become even dearer to me since I have not failed to return each year to explore its soil during the whole long years duration of your its long<s>/ struggle that you have now succeeded in bringing to triumph. Please then then accept, Monseigneur, this admiring testimony of a modest servant of Cypriot archaeology and history and of an admiration for your of esprit and my wishes for a happy conclusion of your action. Very respectfully, C F Sch. M. of the Inst. Prof. at the Coll. Fr. Dr. of the Arch. Miss. Fr. at Enk.-Ala.
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain