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 2 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.

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

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… war. While Webster (Fr. Myc. to Homer, p. 48) is sympathetic to my idea. — May I tell you on the same occasion, but again confidentially, that it is not impossible that I may be obliged to give up my campaign at Enkomi this year: 1st because I am so behind with the publications, 2nd that the survey architectural and the general plan by Kuss would also need to make up an enormous delay. — Nothing is yet settled; I am obliged only to consider the possibility. — On the other hand, how much do you think a building would cost in the style of the one we currently occupy at Enkomi, for we are really cramped there. — I am considering possibly a very simple small house with 3 rooms for the de Contenson and the Kuss + 1 room for Courtois with possibly another assistant to be placed on the rocks, near the small cabin currently existing, near the old entrance to Alasia: p = porte, f = fenêtre. With a terrace like the old house. — Please make me a very brief estimate, please. Respects to Mme and cordially Schaeffer

Drawing: floor plan of a three-room rectangular building with an adjoining square room; labels: f; W.C.; p; f; p; p; f

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