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Dik .
8 January 1958
Dear Colleague,
After a fruitful but long campaign of excavations at Ras Shamra, we arrived here via the Cairo to find a harsh winter and a political situation once again full of courageous and optimistic departures, as it should be at the beginning of the year. We send, to Mrs Dikaios and to yourself our best wishes for 1959 and our hope that in Cyprus, as elsewhere, the peace will be restored among men. –
Mr Kuss, to whom you were kind enough to ease the task at the Museum, for which I thank you, has conveyed to me your wish to receive the keys to the rooms of the house at the Enkomi excavations. I wrote to Nik. Vaios to have those of the two large rooms sent to you; he will keep those of the small rooms N and S where we have stored the Mission's equipment. – I would ask you not to leave the keys handed over into the hands of the current site guard for reasons that I will explain to you in person on my return. It is for the same reasons that I had given them to Mr Megaw, last year.
May I also ask you to tell Mr Karageorghis
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