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… at the University. I am within my legal rights to refuse to go to " Mount Pleasant ", which is not a part of the University. I hope that you will understand my predicament, and realise that this is not a situation of my own making. I have not forgotten your kindness to me in Paris, and have worked under unfavourable conditions to prepare as best I can the records of your excavations.
I hope to go overseas soon for further archaeological training in Europe and the Near East. I trust that I will have an opportunity of meeting you again. I send my kind wishes to you and your wife,
Yours sincerely,
Handwritten: Robert S. Merrillees
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Printed: Overseas Service / AEROGRAMME / By Air Mail · Par Avion
Professor C.F.A. Schaeffer "Le Castel Blanc", 14 Rue Turgot, ST. GERMAIN-EN-LAYE, FRANCE.
Handwritten: (PARIS)
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R.S. Merrillees, 40 Rosedale Road, Gordon, N.S.W., AUSTRALIA.
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Stamp: AUSTRALIA airmail stamp, blue, with postmark SYDNEY 22 AUG 1961
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