Letter from Wheeler (Rik) to Schaeffer asking him to present the bull bowl at one of the Society of Antiquaries meetings at Burlington HouseMortimer Wheeler

[printed: From DR. R. E. M. WHEELER SECRETARY OF THE BRITISH ACADEMY BURLINGTON GARDENS, LONDON, W.1 Telephone: REGENT 0437]

[printed: THE BRITISH ACADEMY BURLINGTON GARDENS, W.1]

Handwritten: signature

3rd January 1952

My dear Claude,

Alas, we must just have missed you in Paris. We enquired for you but were told that you had not yet arrived. I do hope for better luck in the near future - it is a very long time since we met.

By the way, when you come over to fetch your famous Cyprus bowl from the British Museum, I do hope that you will consent to exhibit it to the Society of Antiquaries at the beginning of one of its meetings. As you know, we meet on Thursdays at 5 p.m. at Burlington House, and would esteem it a great honour to welcome you and the bowl.

Warmest regards to you both, and very best wishes for 1952.

Yours very sincerely,

Handwritten: signature

M. Claude F. A. Schaeffer, Le Castel Blanc, rue Turgot, St Germain-en-Laye, Seine-et-Oise, France.