Letter from Ashmole to Schaeffer on publications in the Illustrated London News and The TimesBernard Ashmole

Printed: THE BRITISH MUSEUM, LONDON, W.C.1

Printed: Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities

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Handwritten marginal note at top left, rotated: Peuchet? / Silver bowl / ...

25th April, 1952

Dear Professor Schaeffer,

Thank you for your letter. All arrangements have been made for the exhibition for the silver bowl, and the label had already been prepared according to your original draft: I will certainly add the reference to Enkomi-Alasia.

The Illustrated London News, who have taken their colour-photographs, say that they are publishing your article on May 23rd, and I will have the bowl put on exhibition that day. I think this is better, since there would be nothing to prevent a visitor taking a photograph with a hand-camera and publishing it without acknowledgements in a newspaper, if we put it on show before.

Thank you for the proofs of your article in Enkomi-Alasia. If I can give the Editor of the Times a note about it on your behalf I will certainly make use of them.

I have asked the Laboratory about the possibility of making an electrotype replica of the bowl. There seems to be no time to do the necessary work on this before it returns to Cyprus, and of course it will be on exhibition continuously. Owing to the

Professor C. F. A. Schaeffer, Le Castel Blanc, 14 Rue Turgot, St. Germain-en-Laye, France. /elaborate

[handwritten marginal notes at left, rotated, partly illegible: "...hesar & ... ..." ; "...Kenny..." signature-like initials at bottom left: [handwritten: signature]]