Correspondence between Schaeffer and Kuss about the 1958 missionClaude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer

Engomi 12 Oct.

Dear Sir,

To date, I have received your two letters of 6 Oct., of which the first from Nicosia, accompanied by newspapers for for which we thank you. On the general plan, the situation has remained this week, as you had glimpsed it last Sunday, the total curfew was suspended for 2 h. on Tuesday and has since been kept until this evening only for the men aged 14 to 26. Our cook being too young, I had to each day go to the market at Famagusta with the car. By the same occasion, I directly forwarded three letters which were addressed to you. Nothing, however, has arrived at the Cable Office. We carried out the various finishing works of Monday to Thursday with the 14 couples planned, paid on 9 Oct. thanks to the reopening of the bank on 8 Oct. On Friday and Saturday morning I kept two couples to finish, at the request of Contensson, on the one hand the small kiln (probably a bread oven) of which you had seen the section, and on the other hand what we called the potter's kiln. On this subject, according to the layers cleared since your departure and the few architectural or movable finds discovered, de Contenson and I think that it cannot be a potter's kiln. As this letter cannot be sufficiently explicit, I have taken all sketches and photos to explain our assertion. On the object level nothing has been discovered except in this ex 'kiln, a series of 7 jar handles marked with different signs, one of which e is a impression (drawing) and another is an impression of … continues