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Enkomi
Minet el Beida, 13 October 1958. Dear Mr Kuss, Arrived on the 6th in the evening from Nicosia at Beirut, left again on the 8th via Damascus and on the 11th at Latakia; here we are settled at la Baie Blanche, where nothing essential has changed. Everyone regrets your absence and in particular Raif Hafez, Cheikh Ali and Cheikh Nasser, and all await you next year . Your room is the same, the trees have grown further, the bay is cleaner and, in the distance, the fine Djebel Akra. In Damascus, I had to note that the Egyptian Minister does not want to change his decisions. And Sel. Abdul Hak does not dare make a new request, either for you or for de Cont. But it is agreed that next year the Mission will be reconstituted normally. So stay in Cyprus for all the time necessary to complete the work at Enkomi and arrange with de C. that he finishes also the study and drawings of the objects 1957 and 1958 so as to supply me with his report. - Then transport yourself to Beirut to the Institute and announce your arrival to the impersonal address of the Dir. of the Institute Fr. d'Arch. (in his absence M. H. Abdelnour), M. Seyrig insists on it. Likewise de Cont. M. S. having taken offence that de C. has not come to see him. But I have arranged things by saying that he made the attempt, but has
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