Letter·34 CDF art. 176·26 January 1958

Letter from Schaeffer to Megaw on the transport of the objectsClaude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer

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Scan 1 of letter 34 CDF art. 176 (Letter from Schaeffer to Megaw on the transport of the objects), handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

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26.1.58

Dear Director Megaw,

The amount of work which had accumulated during my absence has prevented me from thanking you at once for your letters of Nov. 5th, Dec. 5th & 18th. I hope you will forgive me. I can only to-day acknowledge the receipt & shall reply in short on some of the items for which my answer is not immediately ready. The finds I took with me have all safely arrived except for the Myc. crater with bulls from Enk. T. 2 (49) which was broken but has since been restored. It is with all the small finds already in the Louvre where a special exhibition is prepared as soon as the rest of the finds has arrived. I thank you for having given premiere for the required photographs. — I have received a copy of the film. The horned god scene has not been improved. The film is in my opinion too long & sometimes too personal. I shall make proposals to cut it down when I prepare the commentary. Confidentially, the operator (not M. Hodson) is not very experienced. Most of the outside

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