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

Ras Shamra- Ugarit, 28 October 1958. Dear Sir, I was just about to [illegible] telegraph you for news when I received, yesterday, your letters of 12 and 18 October, for which I thank you. I write to you at Nicosia, where you arrived in the meantime with Mr C. I hope that your stay and your work will not be hindered by the curfews we hear about still on Radio Cyprus. Here the excavations in the Aegean quarter are progressing Tomb VII, which we had backfilled in 1956, is looted, but a d' superb and intact construction. Under tomb VI, which lies beneath the floor of the same room further to the S, we have found a second burial chamber which seems intact, and the excavation continues under the eyes of Mr Hafez. Few tablets otherwise, the fine house to the N is finished and beyond it, the finds are still not very expressive. – I have just made a new approach to the Ministry after a telephone conversation with Mr Abdul Hak and an effort will be made to obtain a permit for you to come to Damascus. I would like you to draw there objects from the 1956 campaign and from the present excavation, which I will have brought there by Mr Hafez. I hope