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Letter·34 CDF art. 176·15 February 1958

Letter from Schaeffer on an additional invoice and the formalities of a transportClaude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer

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Handwritten in French. Every line is transcribed and translated, and the English sits beside the scan.

Scan 1 of letter 34 CDF art. 176 (Letter from Schaeffer on an additional invoice and the formalities of a transport), handwritten in French. The transcription and translation follow.

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

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[printed: Ministère des Affaires Étrangères] 15.II.58.

Dear friend,

I have received this supplementary invoice relating to the crates of Cyprus. On the other hand, my architect who supervised the packing informs me that the 10th crate contains the vessels given as replacement for the breakage, excavations of the late Bérard, as well as 5 painted jars of the Iron Age bought by him and me from an antiquities dealer in Nicosia, marked P 308, C.177, 122, 1056, 2665 on the bordereau of the Department of Antiquities. These jars were to travel in a separate crate but were also mixed with the … continues

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

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