Letter·34 CDF art. 176·8 December 1957

Letter from Schaeffer to Megaw on accounts, photographs, parcels, gifts to the Louvre, Bérard's vases, filming at Enkomi, the 1955 sherd study and news for R. KussClaude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer

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Scan 5 of letter 34 CDF art. 176 (Letter from Schaeffer to Megaw on accounts, photographs, parcels, gifts to the Louvre, Bérard's vases, filming at Enkomi, the 1955 sherd study and news for R. Kuss), handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art. 176, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

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Marinos Cheque for Marinos. I enclose her cheque for £ 20/ - - to be send to Marinos at Enkomi for purchasing the necessary material to repair the vases of my last campagne. We have estimated roughly the cost. On the other hand there are some chemicals & bottles left on the new shelf of the big south room in the expedition house, which could be handed over to him by M. Dikaios. If necessary he can meantime pay with this money the workmen who will dig the 36 holes for the trees to be planted. The positions have been indicated by ! and shown to Marinos who should supervise the work on a Monday when he is on guard at Enkomi.

Idd Stylianou gift to the Louvre. I shall inform the Louvre authorities as soon as I have your suggestion and photograph with the whole bronzes on which those to be retained by the museum are marked. Two copies please, of which I send one to Larnaca for Stylianou.

Berard vases. In a letter written before his death, he informed me that you suggested as replacement from « vases found in air-raid trenches at Iskender » the following numbers: 253, 265, 290, 311, 303, 278, 260, 271, 1056. - If you so wishe, these vases could be added to those

65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain

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