Correspondence between Schaeffer and Nicolaou on objects returned by Schaeffer and objects remaining in his possessionClaude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer

had not yet been returned. He knows that these materials are of no interest to any museum except those which take part, like the Louvre, in our publications. I have had an inventory drawn up by Mr Amiet, chief curator and his deputy Miss Caubet, of the boxes deposited in the Louvre storeroom, of which I send you the original for Mr Nicolaou, whom I ask, after examination, to return to me. The warning in his letter of 10 March that he would be obliged to inform his Ministry was very impolite towards one of the foreign excavators who have most enriched your Museum of Antiquities with precious and often unique objects. On the other hand, I have noted that he is claiming objects for which I am not accountable. I will inform his Ministry, at the appropriate time. In the meantime, I have made and am having made a new search among the Cyprus materials expelled from the St. Germain Museum some years ago by a curator of little standing. A . . . . boxes containing fragments of pottery and other fragments of bronze, wood, etc., taken for analysis and sometimes eaten by it, have been found. As soon as their inventory has been made they will be sent to Nicosia. Let Mr Nicolaou be patient a little; everything he thinks he must