Letter·34 CDF art. 169·21 November 1964

Letter from Schaeffer to Karageorghis about the architect and the construction of the excavation houseClaude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer

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Scan 1 of letter 34 CDF art. 169 (Letter from Schaeffer to Karageorghis about the architect and the construction of the excavation house), handwritten in English and French. The transcription and translation follow.

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Enkomi Karageorghis

Institut Français d'Archéologie, B.P. 1424, Beirut 21-XI.-64.

Dear Director, I had M. Lapierre inform you that M. Kuss was prevented from going to Enkomi. He has come to an agreement with his friend M. Philippou, architect in Nicosia, so that the latter will check the end of the works and then carry out the acceptance of the buildings. He will receive the plans with the modifications that I wished, so as to be able to check in detail the constructions. M. Kuss assures me that M. Ph. is an experienced architect and that I can have confidence in his judgement. - As for the Landrover, may I ask you kindly to instruct the representative of this make to have brought back the car to Enkomi, to put it on blocks in the garage of the new house, to bring back the battery to keep it safe, as well as the car's papers and keys, to be handed to M. Lapierre. - I thank you and apologise for troubling you. - During our conversation, I forgot to tell you that for next year, after checking on the spot, we will have, in order to be able to employ 80 to 100 excavators on the East front, to extend the area towards the N where there have always been, for many years, the spoil heaps from the Department's excavations carried out by Dik. I had been promised many times that they would be removed. I would be grateful to you for pressing this. I saw, on taking the road to

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