Letter·34 CDF art. 169·25 January 1962

Letter from Schaeffer to Karageorghis on his publications and press releases, the next season at Enkomi and a new house for the expeditionClaude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer and Vassos Karageorghis

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

Scan 1 of letter 34 CDF art. 169 (Letter from Schaeffer to Karageorghis on his publications and press releases, the next season at Enkomi and a new house for the expedition), handwritten in French. The transcription and translation follow.

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25.1.62

Karageorghis

Dear friend, I thank you for sending me the handsome calendar of your Museum, which gives me nostalgia for your sunny country, whereas we live here in the rain and in weather that is most often dismal and cold. – Have you received my communiqué on the 1961 excavations and has it appeared? In that case send me two copies of the newspaper page in English for with the date indicated. – Also write to me please, the principal publications and dates in which you express your conviction that the scenes on the chariot kraters relate to a story or a popular legend current in the contemporary Mycenaean world rain. For, I believe, you share my idea. I wish to cite you in publishing the new krater found at RS-Ugarit in the Annales de Damas, which ask me for a report. John L. Myres smiled in his beard when I spoke to him about it during the … continues

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