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Dear Professor Schaeffer,
lui ai / envoyé / livre & / tirés / à p. / Ug. III / s'il a / ch. d' / adre / pr / Mss / à L. / Arch. / Inst.My wife and myself have been most touched by your generous and extremely kind gesture in sending us a copy of your Ugaritica III, which has reached us in London. We are here for three months, and we leave for Cyprus via Turkey in July. Your Ugaritica III is another example of the high standard of your work for which I feel the deepest admiration I had seen it already before leaving Cyprus in March, and I have made extensive use of it as well as of the previous Ugaritica I-II in my thesis on the "Mycenaean vases of the pictorial style – 14th and 13th centuries". It gives me great satisfaction when I see that I arrive to the same conclusions which you had already foreseen in your Missions so many years ago. Indeed you have opened us the true way to Cypriote Archaeology and, as I believe, we should be most grateful. I am submitting my doctorate thesis next month to the University of London. In the mean time I am working in the British Museum, where, as you know, there is a
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