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to your Department excavations and already opened or to be undertaken under the present road. Thus our results would be at your disposal for the final work in the northern sector. I very much hope you will agree to this proposition made in the interest of the exploration of this important site and in the spirit of scientific cooperation of the two missions which, in 1948, had joined to speed up the archaeological investigation into of this town site found by the French Mission. I would be glad to receive soon your answer, if possible until end of the month here, and you can be sure that I would as soon as I am back in St. Germain, June 7th, send you an official reply to the administrative questions mentioned in your letter. I would like to add that I agree to the proposed settlement of all reasonable claims regarding our excavations along the ouest and south wall last year. But I would suggest that we ultimately buy here the necessary land to be able to keep open the outer face of the wall after complete excavation as soon as its perimeter is known and the place and size of the gates to be expected there have
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